Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 326, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

August 29, 2001Rock County, Minnesota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 29, 2001, 7:55 PM CDT for Rock County, Minnesota. It was in force for 35 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: Aug 29, 2001, 7:55 PM CDT (00:55 UTC)
Expired: Aug 29, 2001, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Rock County, MN

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:55 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 29, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 209 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 22 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -433 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2046 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 190 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.5

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The text

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

716 
WUUS53 KFSD 300055
SVRFSD
MNC133-300130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
755 PM CDT WED AUG 29 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN ROCK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 755 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTH OF JASPER...OR ABOUT 12 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF LUVERNE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  HARDWICK...LUVERNE AROUND 810 PM CDT

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

LAT...LON 4384 9645 4366 9645 4364 9607 4385 9607

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 29, 2:55 PM CDT, 5 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 29, 2:55 PM CDT, 5 hours before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
255 PM CDT WED AUG 29 2001

CDFNT WAS FM ERN ND THRU CNTRL SD IN WRN NE. LO ON FNT OVR CNTRL SD
WITH SOME SHWRS/TSTMS OVR SE ND MOVG TO THE NE. SECOND LO OVR WRN NE
BUT WITH STG MID LVL CAP TSTMS CAN NOT GET GOING. MDLS HAV NRN PART
OF FNT SAGGING S THRU ERN SD AND WRN MN THIS EVE AND THEN ENTIRE FNT
DRPG SE THRU NW IA AND NERN NE BY THU MRNG AS SFC LLOWS MOVG NE ALNG
FNT. SAT SHWG CLDS OVR ERN MT/WRN NE ASSOICATED WITH VORT MAX THAT
SHLD MOV ESE ALNG SD/ND BRDR TNGT. GOOD LO LVL MSTR IS ALSO BRING
PULLED N THRU WRN INTO ERN SD. AS CDFNT DROPS SE AND VORT MAX MOVES
IN FM W TSTMS SHLD DVLP THIS EVE OVR SE SD INTO SW MN...LOOK LIKE
BEST CHC OF TSTMS WILL BE ALNG AND TO N OF CDFNT THIS EVE IN NRN
PARTS OF CWA. IS ANYTHING SVR THIS LOOK TO BE THE BEST AREA FOR
DVLPMNT LATER THIS EVE WITH LLJ. FURTHER S IN NW IA THIS WILL
DVLP LTR TNGT AS CDFNT MOVES THRU. COOLR AND DRIER AIR MOVG IN BHND
FNT LATE TNGT INTO THU. MDLS DO DIFFER ON HOW MUCH PCP BHND FNT BUT
ONLY LEFT SOME MORNING SHWRS IN FAR SE ZNS. OTRW COOL DRY THU THRU
FRI NGT WITH SFC HI DRPG S IN NRN PLAINS AND RDG TO W. IN
EXTNDED...KEEPG IT DRY ON SAT BUT WITH RETURN FLOW AND SOME WAA AS
TROF MOVES THRU..WIL HAV A CHC OF TSTMS WRN ZNS SAT NGT SPRDG OVR
CWA ON SUN WITH SHWRS LINGERING LABOR DAY MRNG IN E. DRY IN FIRST
PART OF NEXT WEEK WITH SEASONAL TEMPS.

SD...NONE
WB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 29, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Pipestone	31 min
Aug 29, 9:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Nobles, Rock	23 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2001 Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.