Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 25, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2001, 3:24 PM CDT for Kandiyohi County, Swift County, Minnesota. It was in force for 36 min. 8 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 11, 2001, 3:24 PM CDT (20:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2001, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Kandiyohi County, MN, Swift County, MN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 3:26 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Murdock, MN | Several sheds down, some siding off homes, numerous trees down, mostly on western side of town. |
| Jun 11, 3:27 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Kerkhoven, MN | A new mesocyclone formed to the northeast of the storm that produced the Benson tornado. This new storm went on to produce five tornadoes, with the last one occurring near New Market in Scott County. This storm also produced large hail and very strong damagi |
| Jun 11, 3:33 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Kerkhoven, MN | Tornado knocked down a few dozen trees. |
| Jun 11, 3:34 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Kerkhoven, MN | Dozens of trees downed. |
| Jun 11, 3:47 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Spicer, MN | Sheds and pole barns down. Church lost part of its roof. Two people were injured when their truck and camper were flung to the edge of a lake. |
| Jun 11, 3:50 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Willmar, MN | This was the last tornado associated with the complex that produced the Benson F2 tornado. The storm had travelled along Highway 212 from Danvers to Benson to Kandiyohi, producing numerous tornadoes, hail, and strong wind gusts. |
| Jun 11, 4:00 PM CDT | Hail 3 | Spicer, MN | Wind driven large hail caused major damage across Kandiyohi County. Damage estimate for the county is listed with the 3 S Sunburg to 1 E Atwater listing. |
| Jun 11, 4:07 PM CDT | Hail 2.5 | Atwater, MN |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 1636 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KMPX 112025 TORMSP MNC067-151-112100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 324 PM CDT MON JUN 11 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN SWIFT COUNTY IN MINNESOTA KANDIYOHI COUNTY IN MINNESOTA * UNTIL 400 PM CDT * AT 324 PM CDT...SEVERE WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 1 MILE WEST OF MURDOCK...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BENSON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... WILLMAR. PENNOCK. SPICER. MURDOCK. KERKHOVEN. KANDIYOHI. GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! LAT...LON 4536 9542 4518 9547 4508 9480 4537 9478 & EDWARDS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 9:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas | 42 min |
| Jun 11, 10:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Todd | 53 min |
| Jun 11, 10:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison, Stearns | 45 min |
| Jun 11, 11:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas | 44 min |
| Jun 11, 11:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Todd | 62 min |
| Jun 11, 12:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 39 min |
| Jun 11, 2:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stevens, Swift | 40 min |
| Jun 11, 2:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Pope | 56 min |
| Jun 11, 2:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Todd | 56 min |
| Jun 11, 2:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Swift | 48 min |
| Jun 11, 2:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Todd | 32 min |
| Jun 11, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 56 min |
| Jun 11, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope | 45 min |
| Jun 11, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton | 31 min |
| Jun 11, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Mille Lacs | 44 min |
| Jun 11, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sherburne | 40 min |
| Jun 11, 3:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker | 50 min |
| Jun 11, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton | 30 min |
| Jun 11, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 57 min |
| Jun 11, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Isanti, Kanabec | 40 min |
| Jun 11, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Washington | 42 min |
| Jun 11, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota | 42 min |
| Jun 11, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Chisago | 45 min |
| Jun 11, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Hennepin, Wright | 45 min |
| Jun 11, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Ramsey | 45 min |
| Jun 11, 4:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | McLeod, Meeker, Wright | 49 min |
| Jun 11, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago, Washington | 35 min |
| Jun 11, 5:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Carver | 50 min |
| Jun 11, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin, Wright | 64 min |
| Jun 11, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Scott | 47 min |
| Jun 11, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver | 47 min |
| Jun 11, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Ramsey, Washington | 39 min |
| Jun 11, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 58 min |
| Jun 11, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota | 28 min |
Nearby
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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.