Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2001, 8:16 PM CDT for Todd County, Minnesota. It was in force for 44 min. 1 report 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, 8:16 PM CDT (01:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2001, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Todd County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 172 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:19 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 13, 8:32 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Long Prairie, MN | Brief touchdown in open field. No damage reported. |
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, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 171 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.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 140117 SVRMSP MNC153-140200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 816 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... TODD COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 816 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 8 MILES SOUTH OF LONG PRAIRIE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... LONG PRAIRIE. GREY EAGLE. CLARISSA. BROWERVILLE. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 4624 9500 4582 9510 4581 9472 4630 9469
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Todd | 52 min |
| Jun 13, 7:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Todd | 27 min |
| Jun 13, 7:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Morrison | 31 min |
| Jun 13, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas | 42 min |
| Jun 13, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 44 min |
| Jun 13, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 57 min |
| Jun 13, 8:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Todd | 37 min |
| Jun 13, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas | 36 min |
| Jun 13, 9:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Todd | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Watonwan | 43 min |
| Jun 13, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Martin | 43 min |
| Jun 13, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kanabec, Mille Lacs | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Nicollet | 28 min |
| Jun 13, 10:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope | 43 min |
| Jun 13, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Waseca | 37 min |
| Jun 13, 10:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Rice, Scott, Steele | 34 min |
| Jun 13, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison, Stearns | 46 min |
| Jun 13, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 40 min |
| Jun 13, 11:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Douglas, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Stearns | 4 hr |
| Jun 13, 11:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue | 56 min |
| Jun 14, 12:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn | 3 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.