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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 134, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 17, 2001Dakota County, Washington County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2001, 7:46 PM CDT for Dakota County, Washington County, Minnesota. It was in force for 44 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued: Jun 17, 2001, 7:46 PM CDT (00:46 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2001, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Dakota County, MN, Washington County, MN

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 45 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 38 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -195 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1536 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 289 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

124 
WUUS53 KMPX 180046
SVRMSP
MNC037-163-180130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
746 PM CDT SUN JUN 17 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  DAKOTA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  SOUTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 746 PM CDT...SEVERE WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 3 MILES EAST OF
  FARMINGTON...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BURNSVILLE...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  VERMILLION.
  ROSEMOUNT.
  LAKEVILLE.
  HASTINGS.
  FARMINGTON.
  COTTAGE GROVE.

LAT...LON 4469 9328 4454 9316 4477 9279 4491 9278

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 17, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Goodhue	49 min
Jun 18, 3:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Todd	52 min
Jun 18, 4:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Morrison	39 min
Jun 18, 4:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Mille Lacs	50 min
Jun 18, 5:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Benton	42 min
Jun 18, 5:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Kanabec	49 min
Jun 18, 5:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chisago, Isanti	60 min
Jun 18, 6:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Washington	45 min
Jun 18, 6:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Carver, McLeod	40 min
Jun 18, 6:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Renville	40 min
Jun 18, 6:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Brown, Nicollet	49 min
Jun 18, 6:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Sibley	49 min
Jun 18, 7:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	McLeod	25 min
Jun 18, 7:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Carver, Scott	52 min
Jun 18, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Benton, Mille Lacs	49 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2001 Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.