Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 445
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 18, 2001, 3:00 PM CDT for 23 counties in Minnesota; 5 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 18, 2001, 3:00 PM CDT (20:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 2001, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 28 counties
Aitkin County, MN, Becker County, MN, Benton County, MN, Big Stone County, MN, Carlton County, MN, Cass County, MN, Chisago County, MN, Crow Wing County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Grant County, MN, Hubbard County, MN, Isanti County, MN, Kanabec County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pine County, MN, Pope County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Todd County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Bayfield County, WI, Burnett County, WI, Douglas County, WI, Sawyer County, WI, Washburn County, WI
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:00 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
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Mille Lacs | 49 min |
| Jun 18, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Pine | 33 min |
| Jun 18, 7:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Isanti, Kanabec | 31 min |
| Jun 18, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Pine | 40 min |
| Jun 18, 7:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Pine | 59 min |
| Jun 18, 7:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chisago | 35 min |
| Jun 18, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Pine | 66 min |
| Jun 18, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Burnett, Washburn | 60 min |
| Jun 18, 8:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Pine | 51 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 476 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -265 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 672 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 235 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -2.2
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 18, 1:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Houston and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 18, 5:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver and 36 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 18, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Cottonwood, Dakota and 21 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 18, 7:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Calumet, Door, Florence, Forest, Kewaunee and 15 more | 6 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.