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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 236, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 13, 2001Pipestone County, Minnesota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2001, 10:02 PM CDT for Pipestone County, Minnesota. It was in force for 28 min. 1 report 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, 10:02 PM CDT (03:02 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 2001, 10:30 PM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Pipestone County, MN

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 13, 10:05 PM CDTHail 1Pipestone, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 13, 7:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 196 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 2001-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 298 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2001-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 7:10 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLincoln35 min
Jun 13, 7:41 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLincoln, Lyon34 min
Jun 13, 8:14 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLyon31 min
Jun 13, 8:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLincoln, Pipestone29 min
Jun 13, 8:39 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLincoln, Lyon36 min
Jun 13, 8:58 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDJackson32 min
Jun 13, 8:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDNobles16 min
Jun 13, 9:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDCottonwood, Jackson, Nobles24 min
Jun 13, 9:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMurray24 min
Jun 13, 9:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLincoln33 min
Jun 13, 9:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDRock25 min
Jun 13, 9:21 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDCottonwood, Jackson24 min
Jun 13, 9:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDPipestone28 min
Jun 13, 9:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDRock16 min
Jun 13, 9:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDCottonwood, Jackson27 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.