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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 13, 2001Dakota County, Goodhue County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2001, 11:24 PM CDT for Dakota County, Goodhue County, Minnesota. It was in force for 56 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, 11:24 PM CDT (04:24 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 2001, 12:20 AM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Dakota County, MN, Goodhue County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 13, 11:35 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 55 EFarmington, MNFourteen trees toppled in rural Farmington.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 13, 10:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 62 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 2001-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4556 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 2001-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 101 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KMPX 140427
SVRMSP
MNC037-049-140520-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
1124 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  DAKOTA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  GOODHUE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 1220 AM CDT

* AT 1124 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
  WITH DAMAGING WINDS.  THE LEADING EDGE OF THE DAMAGING WIND        
  EXTENDED FROM LAKEVILLE TO FARIBAULT AND MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. 

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  RED WING.
  CANNON FALLS.
  FARMINGTON.
  CA<STLE ROCK.
  KENYON.
  HASTINGS.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS...STAY INDOORS AWAY
FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 4473 9330 4449 9305 4421 9302 4423 9263
          4450 9239 4477 9302

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 7:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXDouglas, Todd52 min
Jun 13, 7:48 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXTodd27 min
Jun 13, 7:49 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXMorrison31 min
Jun 13, 8:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXDouglas42 min
Jun 13, 8:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXTodd44 min
Jun 13, 8:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXYellow Medicine44 min
Jun 13, 8:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXMorrison57 min
Jun 13, 8:38 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXTodd37 min
Jun 13, 9:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXDouglas36 min
Jun 13, 9:33 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMPXTodd3 hr
Jun 13, 9:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBrown, Watonwan43 min
Jun 13, 9:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXMartin43 min
Jun 13, 10:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXKanabec, Mille Lacs47 min
Jun 13, 10:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBlue Earth, Le Sueur, Nicollet28 min
Jun 13, 10:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXPope43 min
Jun 13, 10:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXFaribault, Waseca37 min
Jun 13, 10:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXLe Sueur, Rice, Scott, Steele34 min
Jun 13, 10:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXMorrison, Stearns46 min
Jun 13, 11:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXFreeborn40 min
Jun 13, 11:21 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMPXDouglas, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Stearns4 hr
Jun 14, 12:28 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMPXFaribault, Freeborn3 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.