Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 118, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2001, 10:22 PM CDT for Blue Earth County, Le Sueur County, Nicollet County, Minnesota. It was in force for 28 min. 2 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, 10:22 PM CDT (03:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2001, 10:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Blue Earth County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Nicollet County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:23 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, 10:25 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Lake Crystal, MN | Several 10 inch branches down. One branch fell on truck causing moderate damage. |
| Jun 13, 10:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 54 M | Mankato 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, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 94 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 140325 SVRMSP MNC013-079-103-140350- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1022 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LE SUEUR COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA NICOLLET COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA BLUE EARTH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 1050 PM CDT * AT 1022 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAKE CRYSTAL...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MANKATO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. WINDS OF 60 TO 70 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... MANKATO. NORTH MANKATO. CLEVELAND. EAGLE LAKE. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNWING. LAT...LON 4406 9441 4394 9423 4418 9384 4434 9406
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, 8:16 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 | 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, 10:32 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.