Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2001, 6:05 PM CDT for Big Stone County, Minnesota. It was in force for 25 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 2001, 6:05 PM CDT (23:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2001, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Big Stone County, MN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 6:12 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Odessa, MN | A tornado touched down east of Odessa and traveled through an open field causing no damage. Path length and width were estimated. |
| Jun 13, 6:25 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Ortonville, MN |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 167 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1179 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KABR 132306 TORABR MNC011-132330- /NEW.KABR.TO.W.0035.132305-132330/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 605 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABERDEEN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BIG STONE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 605 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER ODESSA...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ORTONVILLE... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... ARTICHOKE AROUND 630 PM CDT THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO TAKE SHELTER NOW REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN ABERDEEN. $$ LAT...LON 4528 9648 4518 9621 4532 9609 4546 9625 HARDING
The office that day
Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Big Stone | 30 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.