Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 33, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2001, 8:38 PM CDT for Todd County, Minnesota. It was in force for 37 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, 8:38 PM CDT (01:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2001, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 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), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KMPX 140139 TORMSP MNC153-140215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 838 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 915 PM CDT * AT 838 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO OVER TODD COUNTY... ABOUT 5 MILES EAST OF LONG PRAIRIE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... BURTRUM. RURAL AREAS OF EAST CENTRAL TODD COUNTY. GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR LAT...LON 4601 9490 4589 9472 4606 9466 4623 9478
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, 7:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Todd | 27 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, 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
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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.