Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2001, 6:53 PM CDT for Grant County, Minnesota. It was in force for 52 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 2001, 6:53 PM CDT (23:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2001, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Grant County, MN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 6:53 PM CDT | Tornado F3 | Parkers Prairie, MN | The tornado caused quite a bit of damage along its path across southeast Otter Tail county before it crossed into Todd county. At one farmstead, 9 people huddled inside a house with no basement as its roof was torn off. Nobody was injured, but another traile |
| Jun 13, 7:20 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Verndale, 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, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 214 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.
513
WFUS53 KFGF 132353
TORFAR
MNC051-140045-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS
653 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
GRANT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
* UNTIL 745 PM CDT
* AT 649 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HERMAN...OR ABOUT 43 MILES SOUTH OF
FERGUS FALLS...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
HERMAN AT 655 PM CDT...
HOFFMAN AT 715 PM CDT...
ELBOW LAKE AT 720 PM CDT...
ERDAHL AT 730 PM CDT...
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO
ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDY BUILDING.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH
DAKOTA.
LAT...LON 4579 9622 4555 9602 4582 9579 4606 9581
4609 9602
$$
DJK
NNNNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 5:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Grant | 37 min |
| Jun 13, 5:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Grant | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 6:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 48 min |
| Jun 13, 6:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Grant, Otter Tail | 4 hr |
| Jun 13, 6:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 33 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.