Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 6, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this tornado warning at May 1, 2001, 8:03 PM CDT for Fillmore County, Minnesota. It was in force for 57 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
- May 1, 2001, 8:03 PM CDT (01:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 2001, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fillmore County, MN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 8:10 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Hamilton, MN | |
| May 1, 9:10 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Fountain, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 453 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1677 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -4.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KARX 020104 TORLSE MNC045-020200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 803 PM CDT TUE MAY 1 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... FILLMORE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 803 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 6 MILES WEST OF SPRING VALLEY...OR ABOUT 21 MILES WEST OF PRESTON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE DEVELOPING TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... NEAR FOUNTAIN AT 820 PM CDT... NEAR PRESTON AT 825 PM CDT... NEAR LANESBORO AT 835 PM CDT... NEAR RUSHFORD VILLAGE AT 850 PM CDT... THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. GO TO THE BASEMENT IF A BASEMENT IS NOT AVAILABLE...GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR $$ RIECK LAT...LON 4381 9242 4358 9242 4360 9177 4384 9178
The office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 7:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Mower | 39 min |
| May 1, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Dodge, Olmsted | 63 min |
| May 1, 7:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Mower | 46 min |
| May 1, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Olmsted | 39 min |
| May 1, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Winona | 50 min |
| May 1, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Fillmore, Winona | 58 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.