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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 13, 2001Pipestone County, Minnesota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2001, 12:44 AM CDT for Pipestone County, Minnesota. It was in force for 31 min. 1 report 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, 12:44 AM CDT (05:44 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 2001, 1:15 AM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Pipestone County, MN

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:45 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 13, 1:10 AM CDTThunderstorm Wind 52 ECazenovia, MNThunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including some trees blown down.

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 nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 193 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2001-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2001-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 42 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1925 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
234 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KFSD 130547
SVRFSD
MNC117-130615-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1244 AM CDT WED JUN 13 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  PIPESTONE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 115 AM CDT

* AT 1244 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER PIPESTONE...OR ABOUT 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  PIPESTONE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  HOLLAND AROUND 1255 AM CDT
  WOODSTOCK AROUND 110 AM CDT

THIS EXTENDS THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR 
PIPESTONE COUNTY. 

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. PREPARE TO
MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR
SMALL INTERIOR ROOM IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED.

LAT...LON 4412 9644 4392 9643 4390 9609 4411 9609

The office that day

Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 7:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMurray, Rock26 min
Jun 12, 7:39 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDRock36 min
Jun 12, 8:14 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDRock46 min
Jun 12, 8:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDJackson, Nobles41 min
Jun 12, 8:50 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDNobles40 min
Jun 12, 8:59 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDRock16 min
Jun 12, 9:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDNobles24 min
Jun 12, 9:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDJackson31 min
Jun 12, 9:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDNobles47 min
Jun 12, 9:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDJackson31 min
Jun 12, 9:55 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFSDJackson, Nobles, Rock3 hr
Jun 12, 10:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDJackson, Nobles43 min
Jun 12, 10:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDRock29 min
Jun 12, 10:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDJackson32 min
Jun 12, 11:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDRock31 min
Jun 13, 12:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDPipestone35 min
Jun 13, 12:59 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFSDCottonwood, Jackson, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock2 hr
Jun 13, 1:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMurray37 min
Jun 13, 7:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLincoln32 min
Jun 13, 8:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLincoln, Lyon14 min
Jun 13, 6:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLincoln34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.