Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 115, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2001, 9:47 PM CDT for Brown County, Watonwan County, Minnesota. It was in force for 43 min. 8 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, 9:47 PM CDT (02:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2001, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Brown County, MN, Watonwan County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:48 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, 9:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 57 E | Darfur, MN | A few sheds toppled. |
| Jun 13, 9:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Comfrey, MN | A door was blown off a pole barn. A few sheds damaged. Trees down. |
| Jun 13, 9:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Butterfield, MN | A few trees down. |
| Jun 13, 10:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | St James, MN | Several trees down. |
| Jun 13, 10:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | St James, MN | Five trees felled near Long lake. |
| Jun 13, 10:10 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Madelia, MN | Trees and powerlines down. |
| Jun 13, 10:10 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Dunnell, MN | Trees down. |
| Jun 13, 10:25 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Lake Crystal, MN | Several 10 inch branches down. One branch fell on truck causing moderate damage. |
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, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 131 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 140249
SVRMSP
MNC015-091-165-140330-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
947 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
MARTIN COUNTY IN MINNESOTA
WATONWAN COUNTY IN MINNESOTA
BROWN COUNTY IN MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT
* ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF ST JAMES TO 13
MILES SOUTHWEST OF ST JAMES TO 29 MILES WEST OF FAIRMONT...MOVING
EAST AT 45 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...
FAIRMONT.
NEW ULM.
ST JAMES.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...STAY INDOORS bAWAY FROM WINDOWS. SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE
WARNING.
LAT...LON 4422 9519 4385 9488 4342 9512 4358 9418
4401 9394 4439 9424The 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, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Todd | 44 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 | 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
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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.