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Tornado Warning 30, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 13, 2001Douglas County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2001, 6:26 PM CDT for Douglas County, Minnesota. It was in force for 34 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 13, 2001, 6:26 PM CDT (23:26 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2001, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Douglas County, MN

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 204 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:28 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 13, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 211 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: 5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -599 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1314 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 110 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 207 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KMPX 132327
TORMSP
MNC041-140000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
626 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 626 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EVANSVILLE...OR ABOUT 17 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF ALEXANDRIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...
  MILLERVILLE.
  EVANSVILLE.
  BRANDON.
  MELBY.

GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR

LAT...LON 4604 9583 4591 9564 4618 9540 4639 9539

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Martin	54 min
Jun 12, 11:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Faribault	53 min
Jun 13, 12:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Faribault, Martin	60 min
Jun 13, 12:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Freeborn	58 min
Jun 13, 3:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Lac qui Parle	41 min
Jun 13, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Stevens	48 min
Jun 13, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Lac qui Parle	35 min
Jun 13, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Meeker	26 min
Jun 13, 6:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Stevens	54 min
Jun 13, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Morrison, Stearns	63 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.