Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 56, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2001, 9:21 PM CDT for Cottonwood County, Jackson County, Minnesota. It was in force for 24 min. 3 reports came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 2001, 9:21 PM CDT (02:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2001, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Cottonwood County, MN, Jackson County, MN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 9:25 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 E | Lakefield, MN | Thunderstorm winds destroyed a barn and garage on a farm. |
| Jun 13, 9:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 69 E | Windom, MN | Thunderstorm winds blew the roof and wall of a large lumber yard building onto a nearby bowling alley. Widespread tree damage included large trees blown down, about a dozen of which fell onto houses and caused further damage. The winds caused roof damage to o |
| Jun 13, 9:39 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 56 M | Windom Muni Arpt, 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 13, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 177 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.
560 WFUS53 KFSD 140221 TORFSD MNC033-063-140245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 921 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... COTTONWOOD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA JACKSON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 945 PM CDT * AT 921 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HERON LAKE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF WORTHINGTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... WINDOM...BINGHAM LAKE AROUND 940 PM CDT IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. SEVERE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. LAT...LON 4375 9546 4358 9538 4388 9490 4399 9509
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, 9:32 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.