Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 232, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2001, 9:44 PM CDT for Rock County, Minnesota. It was in force for 16 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 2001, 9:44 PM CDT (02:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2001, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 16 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Rock County, MN
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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 203 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.
076 WUUS53 KFSD 140244 SVRFSD MNC133-140300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 944 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN ROCK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 1000 PM CDT * AT 944 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JASPER...OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PIPESTONE...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... JASPER AROUND 950 PM CDT THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4372 9646 4373 9629 4385 9629 4385 9645
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, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Pipestone | 29 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, 9:48 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.