Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 190, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 2001, 6:04 AM CDT for Le Sueur County, Minnesota. It was in force for 41 min. 1 report 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
- Jul 23, 2001, 6:04 AM CDT (11:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 2001, 6:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Le Sueur County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:03 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 6:10 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Kasota, MN | Few trees down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 6:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 54 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
- 2234 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1124 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 231103 SVRMSP MNC079-231145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 604 AM CDT MON JUL 23 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LE SUEUR COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 645 AM CDT * AT 604 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KASOTA...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF MANKATO...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... MONTGOMERY. LE CENTER. KILKENNY. KASOTA. HEIDELBERG. CLEVELAND. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle | 46 min |
| Jul 23, 1:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stevens, Swift | 42 min |
| Jul 23, 2:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Pope, Stearns, Swift | 61 min |
| Jul 23, 3:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker, Stearns | 47 min |
| Jul 23, 5:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Nicollet | 49 min |
| Jul 23, 5:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Chisago, Isanti | 28 min |
| Jul 23, 5:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth | 48 min |
| Jul 23, 7:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 44 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.