Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 700
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 29, 2001, 3:30 PM CDT for 30 counties in Minnesota; Richland County, North Dakota; 8 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 29, 2001, 3:30 PM CDT (20:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 2001, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 39 counties
Becker County, MN, Beltrami County, MN, Big Stone County, MN, Cass County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Clay County, MN, Clearwater County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Grant County, MN, Hubbard County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Koochiching County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Lake of the Woods County, MN, Mahnomen County, MN, Marshall County, MN, Norman County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pennington County, MN, Polk County, MN, Pope County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Roseau County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Todd County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN, Richland County, ND, Clark County, SD, Codington County, SD, Day County, SD, Deuel County, SD, Grant County, SD, Hamlin County, SD, Marshall County, SD, Roberts County, SD
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
23 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Wilkin | 31 min |
| Aug 29, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hamlin | 33 min |
| Aug 29, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Swift | 45 min |
| Aug 29, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Otter Tail, Wilkin | 44 min |
| Aug 29, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Traverse | 28 min |
| Aug 29, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Big Stone | 49 min |
| Aug 29, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Deuel | 45 min |
| Aug 29, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grant | 45 min |
| Aug 29, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Traverse | 44 min |
| Aug 29, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 38 min |
| Aug 29, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Traverse | 31 min |
| Aug 29, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Deuel | 29 min |
| Aug 29, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 47 min |
| Aug 29, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grant | 44 min |
| Aug 29, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine | 58 min |
| Aug 29, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Swift | 58 min |
| Aug 29, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Pope, Stevens | 50 min |
| Aug 29, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Wadena | 49 min |
| Aug 29, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cass | 56 min |
| Aug 29, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Todd | 41 min |
| Aug 29, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope, Stearns | 44 min |
| Aug 29, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Swift | 45 min |
| Aug 29, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle | 27 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 232 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
- 559 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -400 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2208 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 248 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 29, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Jackson, Le Sueur, Lincoln and 8 more | 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.