Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 674
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 17, 2001, 5:00 PM CDT for 42 counties in Minnesota; Richland County, North Dakota; 6 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 17, 2001, 5:00 PM CDT (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 2001, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 49 counties
Benton County, MN, Big Stone County, MN, Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Carver County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Cottonwood County, MN, Crow Wing County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Grant County, MN, Jackson County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Lincoln County, MN, Lyon County, MN, Martin County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Murray County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Nobles County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pipestone County, MN, Pope County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Rock County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Todd County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Wright County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN, Richland County, ND, Brookings County, SD, Deuel County, SD, Grant County, SD, Minnehaha County, SD, Moody County, SD, Roberts County, SD
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 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
19 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Hubbard, Wadena | 43 min |
| Aug 17, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Otter Tail, Wilkin | 46 min |
| Aug 17, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 32 min |
| Aug 17, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grant | 43 min |
| Aug 17, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Renville, Yellow Medicine | 63 min |
| Aug 17, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 46 min |
| Aug 17, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas | 56 min |
| Aug 17, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood | 62 min |
| Aug 17, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Todd | 37 min |
| Aug 17, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Renville | 46 min |
| Aug 17, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 58 min |
| Aug 17, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope | 43 min |
| Aug 17, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns, Todd | 61 min |
| Aug 17, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood | 46 min |
| Aug 17, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton | 49 min |
| Aug 17, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker, Stearns | 47 min |
| Aug 17, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Watonwan | 60 min |
| Aug 17, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Lyon | 27 min |
| Aug 17, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Wright | 44 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1228 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Union | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Dakota, 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.