Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 422
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 13, 2001, 10:30 PM CDT for 30 counties in Iowa; 26 counties in Minnesota; 5 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 2001, 10:30 PM CDT (03:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2001, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 61 counties
Audubon County, IA, Boone County, IA, Butler County, IA, Calhoun County, IA, Carroll County, IA, Cerro Gordo County, IA, Dallas County, IA, Emmet County, IA, Floyd County, IA, Franklin County, IA, Greene County, IA, Grundy County, IA, Guthrie County, IA, Hamilton County, IA, Hancock County, IA, Hardin County, IA, Humboldt County, IA, Jasper County, IA, Kossuth County, IA, Marshall County, IA, Mitchell County, IA, Palo Alto County, IA, Pocahontas County, IA, Polk County, IA, Shelby County, IA, Story County, IA, Webster County, IA, Winnebago County, IA, Worth County, IA, Wright County, IA, Anoka County, MN, Blue Earth County, MN, Carver County, MN, Chisago County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Dodge County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Isanti County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Martin County, MN, Mower County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Olmsted County, MN, Ramsey County, MN, Rice County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Steele County, MN, Wabasha County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Washington County, MN, Wright County, MN, Barron County, WI, Dunn County, WI, Pierce County, WI, Polk County, WI, Saint Croix County, WI
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 40 min |
| Jun 13, 11:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue | 56 min |
| Jun 13, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pepin, Pierce | 50 min |
| Jun 14, 12:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 12:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Dodge | 3 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
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, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 14, 12:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Cass, Fremont, Madison, Mills and 5 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 14, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Appanoose, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler and 43 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 14, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 14, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Clayton, Fayette, Winneshiek | 5 hr |
| Jun 14, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Calumet, Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Fond du Lac and 17 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 14, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Calumet, Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Fond du Lac and 16 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Iowa, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Wisconsin, 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.