Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 7, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this tornado warning at May 1, 2001, 8:10 PM CDT for Winona County, Minnesota. It was in force for 50 min. 1 report 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, 8:10 PM CDT (01:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 2001, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Winona County, MN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 8:31 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Lewiston, 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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 174 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 020111 TORLSE MNC169-020200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 810 PM CDT TUE MAY 1 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WINONA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 810 PM CDT...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 7 MILES WEST OF ST. CHARLES...OR ABOUT 14 MILES EAST OF ROCHESTER...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... NEAR ST. CHARLES AT 815 PM CDT... NEAR LEWISTON AND ALTURA AT 825 PM CDT... NEAR ROLLINGSTONE AT 830 PM CDT... NEAR STOCKTON AT 835 PM CDT... NEAR WINONA AND GOODVIEW AT 840 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! PLEASE REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICE AND TELL THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT 3TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. $$ NELSON LAT...LON 4419 9208 4385 9209 4388 9134 4418 9185 &
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, 8:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Fillmore | 57 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.