Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 15, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 1993, 7:46 PM CDT for Jackson County, Minnesota. It was in force for 29 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 1993, 7:46 PM CDT (00:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 1993, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson County, MN
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -565 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 540 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 582 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 647 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFSD 080049 TORFSD MNC063-080115- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 746 PM CDT MON JUN 7 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA ...EASTERN JACKSON COUNTY AT 740 PM A TORNADO WAS REPORTED NEAR LAKEFIELD MINNESOTA OR ABOUT 20 MILES EAST OF WORTHINGTON. THE STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE BETWEEN BERGEN AND JACKSON AROUND 800 PM. DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. &
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 7:24 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
IAZ013-020-021-031-032-043-NEZ094>096-SDZ066-080100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX CITY IA 724 PM CDT MON JUN 7 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED EAST SIOUX CITY... AT 721 PM CDT THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF PRIMGHAR IOWA TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF CHEROKEE IOWA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PEA SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED AT HARTLEY IOWA AT 710 PM. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM AND A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TONIGHT. HOPPES
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 7:24 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
IAZ013-020-021-031-032-043-NEZ094>096-SDZ066-080100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX CITY IA 724 PM CDT MON JUN 7 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED EAST SIOUX CITY... AT 721 PM CDT THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF PRIMGHAR IOWA TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF CHEROKEE IOWA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PEA SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED AT HARTLEY IOWA AT 710 PM. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM AND A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TONIGHT. HOPPES
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 7:25 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
SDZ010-SDZ011-SDZ012-080415 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD 725 PM CDT MON JUN 7 1993 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA TONIGHT... FOR THE REST OF THE EVENING...SKIES WILL BE MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. SOME MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN IN THE EAST. GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE FROM THE SOUTHWEST 15 TO 30 MPH IN THE EAST...BUT WILL SHIFT TO THE NORTHWEST IN CENTRAL SECTIONS. LOWS TONIGHT WILL BE IN THE 50S. ORGISH
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 7:31 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
SDZ010-SDZ011-SDZ012-080415 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD 725 PM CDT MON JUN 7 1993 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA TONIGHT... FOR THE REST OF THE EVENING...SKIES WILL BE MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. SOME MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN IN THE EAST. GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE FROM THE SOUTHWEST 15 TO 30 MPH IN THE EAST...BUT WILL SHIFT TO THE NORTHWEST IN CENTRAL SECTIONS. LOWS TONIGHT WILL BE IN THE 50S. ORGISH
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 7:45 PM CDT, 1 minute before
SDZ004-005-012-080115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 745 PM CDT MON JUN 8 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH CANCELED FOR SOUTH DAKOTA... THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELED WHICH REMAINED IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. AS OF 740 PM THERE WERE NO WATCHES IN EFFECT FOR ANY PART OF THE STATE. UMLAND
Local storm report, Jun 7, 7:46 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX CITY IA
746 PM CDT MON JUN 7 1993
...ALL TIMES CDT...
640 PM 3 TO 4 MILES WEST OF SANBORN - OBRIEN COUNTY. (60 MILES
NORTHEAST OF SIOUX CITY)...TORNADO REPORTED BY OBRIEN COUNTY
SHERIFF.
640 PM 2 MILES SOUTH AND 4 TO 5 MILES WEST OF HARTLEY - OBRIEN COUNTY.
(65 MILES NORTHEAST OF SIOUX CITY)...A TORNADO REPORTED BY
OBRIEN COUNTY SHERIFF.
HOPPESThe office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 7:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Jackson, Nobles | 29 min |
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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.