Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 37, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jul 21, 2001, 9:46 AM CDT for Redwood County, Minnesota. It was in force for 44 min. 1 report 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
- Jul 21, 2001, 9:46 AM CDT (14:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2001, 10:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Redwood County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:46 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 10:10 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Walnut Grove, MN | Numerous 8 inch branches downed. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 1431 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -146 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 975 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
205 WFUS53 KMPX 211446 TORMSP MNC127-211530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 946 AM CDT SAT JUL 21 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... REDWOOD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 1030 AM CDT * AT 946 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 7 MILES WEST OF MILROY... OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MARSHALL...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... WANDA. WABASSO. SEAFORTH. MILROY. LUCAN. THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME AREA. GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR LAT...LON 4450 9580 4432 9582 4425 9513 4448 9511
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 9:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood | 63 min |
| Jul 21, 10:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Watonwan | 30 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Minnesota, 2001Every tornado warning in 2001Tornadoes 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.