Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 219, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 29, 2001, 8:33 PM CDT for Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 29, 2001, 8:33 PM CDT (01:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 2001, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lac qui Parle County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:35 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 29, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -433 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2046 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
311 WUUS53 KMPX 300133 SVRMSP MNC073-300200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 833 PM CDT WED AUG 29 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LAC QUI PARLE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 833 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 5 MILES EAST OF DAWSON...OR ABOUT 11 MILES WEST OF MONTEVIDEO...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... DAWSON RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN LAC QUI PARLE COUNTIES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Todd | 41 min |
| Aug 29, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope, Stearns | 44 min |
| Aug 29, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Swift | 45 min |
| Aug 29, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 46 min |
| Aug 29, 10:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue, Rice | 59 min |
| Aug 29, 10:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Steele, Waseca | 59 min |
| Aug 29, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Washington | 29 min |
| Aug 29, 11:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Sherburne | 43 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.