Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 192, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 2001, 7:31 AM CDT for Goodhue 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
- Jul 23, 2001, 7:31 AM CDT (12:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 2001, 8:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Goodhue County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 12:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 76 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
- 562 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -158 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 950 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
483 WUUS53 KMPX 231231 SVRMSP MNC049-231315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 731 AM CDT MON JUL 23 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GOODHUE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 815 AM CDT * AT 731 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RED WING...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... RED WING. CANNON FALLS. GOODHUE. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4445 9301 4431 9285 4451 9243 4463 9269
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, 6:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur | 41 min |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.