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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Duluth, MN

June 13, 2001Aitkin County, Crow Wing County, Minnesota

NWS Duluth, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2001, 9:00 PM CDT for Aitkin County, Crow Wing County, Minnesota. It was in force for 60 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, 9:00 PM CDT (02:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2001, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Duluth, MN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Aitkin County, MN, Crow Wing County, MN

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 13, 9:35 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Aitkin, MN	Trees were blown down. The wind speed is estimated.
Jun 13, 9:50 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Sheshebee, 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, 7:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 189 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 4556 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 989 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 167 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.1
Supercell composite: 20.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

509 
WFUS53 KDLH 140203
TORDLH
MNC001-035-140300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
900PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CROW WING COUNTY IN MINNESOTA
  AITKIN COUNTY IN MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT

* AT 900 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 3 MILES NORTH OF
  WOLFORD...OR ABOUT 19 MILES NORTHEAST OF BRAINERD...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THIS TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  EMILY AROUND 920 PM CDT
  LITTLE PINE AROUND 925 PM CDT
  WAUKENABO AROUND 950 PM CDT
  BAIN AROUND 955 PM CDT
  HAYPOINT AROUND 1000 PM CDT

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR 
ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR

$$

LAT...LON 4701 9367 4693 9377 4680 9379 4680 9392
          4659 9419 4647 9402 4682 9340

TOMALAK

The office that day

Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Cass, Crow Wing	60 min
Jun 13, 8:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DLH	Crow Wing	45 min
Jun 13, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Cass	45 min
Jun 13, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Aitkin, Carlton, Saint Louis	45 min
Jun 13, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Carlton, Saint Louis	60 min

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.