Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2001, 2:59 PM CDT for 4 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 46 min. 5 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 2001, 2:59 PM CDT (19:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2001, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Anoka County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Ramsey County, MN, Washington County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:01 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 16, 3:03 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Ramsey, MN | |
| Jun 16, 3:15 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | New Hope, MN | |
| Jun 16, 3:18 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Minneapolis, MN | Event occurred at the Minneapolis/St. Paul Int. Airport, and was reported by a citizen. |
| Jun 16, 3:18 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Minneapolis, MN | Hail occurred at the University of Minnesota. |
| Jun 16, 3:25 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | White Bear Lake, MN | Hail occurred in the city of Shoreview. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 42 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1333 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault | 31 min |
| Jun 16, 2:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker, Sherburne, Stearns, Wright | 49 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.