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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Twin Cities, MN

July 7, 1988Stearns County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jul 7, 1988, 6:40 PM CDT for Stearns County, Minnesota. It was in force for 35 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 7, 1988, 6:40 PM CDT (23:40 UTC)
Expired: Jul 7, 1988, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Whole counties

County Stearns County, MN

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 111 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 565 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -158 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1522 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 162 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSTC 072340
TORSTC
MNC145-080015-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNDAO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST CLOUD MN
640PM CDT THU JUL 7 1988

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNDAO WARNING EFFECTIVE
UNTIL 715PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF CENTRAL
MINNESOTA

                 EASTERN HALF OF STEARNS
                   
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF
ST. CLOUD AND COLD SPRING



AT 625PM CDT BRIEF TORNADOES OCCURRED IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA NEAR COLD
SPRING AND ROSCOE...15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ST. CLOUD. THESE TORNADOES
WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.


THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF
THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE.
OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE.
AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED
BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.

WDV/JF/RN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 7, 4:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Yellow Medicine	28 min
Jul 7, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Yellow Medicine	60 min
Jul 7, 6:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Stearns	24 min

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.