Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 51, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2001, 8:14 PM CDT for Lyon County, Minnesota. It was in force for 31 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, 8:14 PM CDT (01:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2001, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Lyon 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, 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
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 4556 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 989 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.1
- Supercell composite
- 20.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
003 WFUS53 KFSD 140114 TORFSD MNC083-140145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 814 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN LYON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 814 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MINNEOTA...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF MARSHALL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... MINNEOTA AROUND 820 PM CDT LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD SOUTHWEST OF MINNEOTA AROUND 808 PM CDT. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. LAT...LON 4455 9608 4448 9598 4463 9584 4462 9606
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, 8:16 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, 9:44 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.