Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2001, 12:48 PM CDT for Blue Earth County, Faribault County, Minnesota. It was in force for 42 min. 2 reports came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 2001, 12:48 PM CDT (17:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2001, 1:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Blue Earth County, MN, Faribault County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 12:55 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Mapleton, MN | |
| Jun 1, 1:10 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Easton, MN | Several home windows broken. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1164 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 011749 SVRMSP MNC013-043-011830- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1248 PM CDT FRI JUN 1 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BLUE EARTH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA FARIBAULT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 130 PM CDT * AT 1248 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 4 MILES WEST OF MAPLETON...OR ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTH OF MANKATO...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... WELLS. MINNESOTA LAKE. MAPLETON. EASTON. AMBOY THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 4401 9402 4379 9415 4371 9369 4393 9380
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 1:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Hennepin, Wright | 23 min |
| Jun 1, 1:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 34 min |
| Jun 1, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin, Wright | 45 min |
| Jun 1, 1:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 24 min |
| Jun 1, 1:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 46 min |
| Jun 1, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Scott | 47 min |
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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.