Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 417
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 13, 2001, 5:30 PM CDT for 15 counties in Minnesota; 7 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 2001, 5:30 PM CDT (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2001, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 22 counties
Becker County, MN, Beltrami County, MN, Clay County, MN, Clearwater County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Grant County, MN, Hubbard County, MN, Mahnomen County, MN, Norman County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pennington County, MN, Polk County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Cass County, ND, Grand Forks County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Steele County, ND, Traill County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:33 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.
Warnings issued inside it
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 5:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Grant | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ransom | 26 min |
| Jun 13, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cass | 51 min |
| Jun 13, 6:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 48 min |
| Jun 13, 6:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Grant, Otter Tail | 4 hr |
| Jun 13, 6:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Douglas | 34 min |
| Jun 13, 6:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Grant | 52 min |
| Jun 13, 6:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 33 min |
| Jun 13, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Todd | 52 min |
| Jun 13, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Wadena | 51 min |
| Jun 13, 7:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Wadena | 4 hr |
| Jun 13, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas | 42 min |
| Jun 13, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas | 36 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 249 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
- 1179 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 12:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Faribault, Jackson, Martin, Nobles, Rock and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 13, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Jackson, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle and 13 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Dakota, 2001Every severe thunderstorm watch 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.