Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2001, 1:06 AM CDT for Murray County, Minnesota. It was in force for 24 min. 2 reports 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 10, 2001, 1:06 AM CDT (06:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2001, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Murray County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:08 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 1:20 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Slayton, MN | |
| Jun 10, 1:30 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Lake Wilson, 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 141 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -99 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1787 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KFSD 100606 SVRFSD MNC101-100630- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 106 AM CDT SUN JUN 10 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN MURRAY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 130 AM CDT * AT 106 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF CURRENT LAKE TO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CURRENT LAKE...OR FROM 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF PIPESTONE TO 11 MILES EAST OF PIPESTONE...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... CURRIE AROUND 125 AM CDT DOVRAY AROUND 130 AM CDT THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 12:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Pipestone | 37 min |
| Jun 10, 12:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Nobles, Rock | 44 min |
| Jun 10, 12:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Lyon | 36 min |
| Jun 10, 1:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Murray | 38 min |
| Jun 10, 1:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon | 17 min |
| Jun 10, 1:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Jackson, Nobles | 46 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.