Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 202, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 2001, 7:44 PM CDT for Stearns County, Todd County, Minnesota. It was in force for 61 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
- Aug 17, 2001, 7:44 PM CDT (00:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 2001, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Stearns County, MN, Todd County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:43 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 478 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1766 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
453
WUUS53 KMPX 180044
SVRMSP
MNC145-153-180145-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
744 PM CDT FRI AUG 17 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
STEARNS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
SOUTHERN TODD COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 845 PM CDT
* AT 744 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE
HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF GREY EAGLE...OR ABOUT
9 MILES SOUTH OF LONG PRAIRIE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...
SAUK CENTRE.
ALBANY.
ST. CLOUD.
HOLDINGFORD
GREY EAGLE
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER
IN A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
LAT...LON 4588 9497 4555 9506 4543 9448 4574 9428
4573 9459 4589 9468The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Todd | 37 min |
| Aug 17, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Renville | 46 min |
| Aug 17, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 58 min |
| Aug 17, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope | 43 min |
| Aug 17, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood | 46 min |
| Aug 17, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton | 49 min |
| Aug 17, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker, Stearns | 47 min |
| Aug 17, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Watonwan | 60 min |
| Aug 17, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Wright | 44 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.