Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 215, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2001, 8:16 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Pipestone County, Minnesota. It was in force for 29 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, 8:16 PM CDT (01:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2001, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Lincoln County, MN, Pipestone County, MN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 8:20 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Holland, MN | |
| Jun 13, 8:20 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Tyler, MN | A brief tornado caused no reported damage or injuries. |
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, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Jun 13, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 298 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 612 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KFSD 140117 SVRFSD MNC081-117-140145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 816 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA NORTHERN PIPESTONE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 816 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS REPORTED 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOLLAND...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF PIPESTONE... MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RUTHTON AROUND 830 PM CDT TYLER AROUND 840 PM CDT THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMA GING WIND. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4401 9638 4398 9608 4440 9608 4439 9626
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lincoln | 35 min |
| Jun 13, 7:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Lyon | 34 min |
| Jun 13, 8:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lyon | 31 min |
| Jun 13, 8:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Lyon | 36 min |
| Jun 13, 8:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Jackson | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Nobles | 16 min |
| Jun 13, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Nobles | 24 min |
| Jun 13, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Murray | 24 min |
| Jun 13, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln | 33 min |
| Jun 13, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Rock | 25 min |
| Jun 13, 9:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson | 24 min |
| Jun 13, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Pipestone | 28 min |
| Jun 13, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Rock | 16 min |
| Jun 13, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson | 27 min |
| Jun 13, 10:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Pipestone | 28 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.