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Tornado Warning 31, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 13, 2001Todd County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2001, 7:48 PM CDT for Todd 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Jun 13, 2001, 7:48 PM CDT (00:48 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2001, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Todd County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:49 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.

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, 7:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 159 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: 4556 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 989 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 167 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.1
Supercell composite: 20.8

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KMPX 140050
TORMSP
MNC153-140115-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  TODD COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 748 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADOS IN THE       
  VICINITY OF LONG PRAIRIE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...
  LONG PRAIRIE.
  PHILBROOK.
  
GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR

LAT...LON 4586 9505 4576 9483 4605 9467 4617 9498

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Douglas, Todd	52 min
Jun 13, 7:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Morrison	31 min
Jun 13, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Douglas	42 min
Jun 13, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Todd	44 min
Jun 13, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Yellow Medicine	44 min
Jun 13, 8:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Morrison	57 min
Jun 13, 8:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Todd	37 min
Jun 13, 9:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Douglas	36 min
Jun 13, 9:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Todd	3 hr
Jun 13, 9:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Brown, Watonwan	43 min
Jun 13, 9:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Martin	43 min
Jun 13, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Kanabec, Mille Lacs	47 min
Jun 13, 10:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Nicollet	28 min
Jun 13, 10:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Pope	43 min
Jun 13, 10:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Faribault, Waseca	37 min
Jun 13, 10:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Le Sueur, Rice, Scott, Steele	34 min
Jun 13, 10:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Morrison, Stearns	46 min
Jun 13, 11:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Freeborn	40 min
Jun 13, 11:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Douglas, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Stearns	4 hr
Jun 13, 11:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota, Goodhue	56 min
Jun 14, 12:28 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Faribault, Freeborn	3 hr

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Minnesota, 2001 Every tornado warning in 2001 Tornadoes 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.