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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 54, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 10, 2001Stearns County, Todd County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2001, 12:09 AM CDT for Stearns County, Todd County, Minnesota. It was in force for 51 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: Jun 10, 2001, 12:09 AM CDT (05:09 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2001, 1:00 AM CDT
In force: 51 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), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 147 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 141 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -99 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1787 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 229 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KMPX 100509
SVRMSP
MNC145-153-100600-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
1209 AM CDT SUN JUN 10 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 100 AM CDT

* AT 1209 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE
  HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER SAUK CENTRE...OR ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTH
  OF LONG PRAIRIE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  LONG PRAIRIE.
  SAUK CENTRE.
  GREY EAGLE.

LARGE HAIL AND DA3MAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER
IN A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 4575 9511 4562 9493 4576 9468 4599 9487

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 11:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	McLeod, Renville, Sibley	58 min
Jun 10, 12:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift, Yellow Medicine	53 min
Jun 10, 12:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	McLeod, Meeker	52 min
Jun 10, 12:53 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine	37 min
Jun 10, 1:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Redwood, Renville, Yellow Medicine	55 min
Jun 10, 1:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Lac qui Parle, Swift	55 min
Jun 10, 2:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Faribault, Martin, Watonwan	55 min
Jun 10, 2:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Brown, Nicollet	55 min
Jun 10, 2:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	McLeod, Sibley	55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2001 Every 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.