Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1993, 6:01 PM CDT for Lac qui Parle County, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 1993, 6:01 PM CDT (23:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 1993, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lac qui Parle County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KHON), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 579 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 372 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 509 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSTC 072301 RRA SVRSTC MNC073-173-080000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST CLOUD MINNESOTA 601 PM CDT MON JUN 7 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST CLOUD MINNESOTA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA ...LAC QUI PARLE COUNTY...WESTERN YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY SOME CITIES IN THE PATH OF THESE DANGEROUS STORMS ARE CANBY..ST LEO...PROVIDENCE...DAWSON AND MADISON. AT 555 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO YELLOW MEDICINE AND LAC QUI PARLE COUNTIES OF WESTERN MINNESOTA. IF OUTSIDE..FIND A STRONG BUILDIN~G. DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER TREES. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DO NOT USE ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES. NNNN
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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, 5:26 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
MNZ015-016-072330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN 530 PM CDT MON JUN 7 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HEADING FOR THE SOUTHWEST SUBURBS OF THE TWIN CITIES... AT 520 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WRE OVER EASTERN SIBLEY COUNTIES OR ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF THE TWIN CITIES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE ABOUT TO ENTER CARVER COUNTY AND WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST HENNEPIN COUNTY BY 6 PM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS A@RE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL..GUSTY WINDS OF 50 MPH AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT THE CITIES OF WACONIA..CHASKA AND THE LAKE MINNETONKA AREA BETWEEN 530 PM AND 600 PM. JPR
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 5:30 PM CDT, 31 minutes before
MNZ015-016-072330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN 530 PM CDT MON JUN 7 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HEADING FOR THE SOUTHWEST SUBURBS OF THE TWIN CITIES... AT 520 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WRE OVER EASTERN SIBLEY COUNTIES OR ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF THE TWIN CITIES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE ABOUT TO ENTER CARVER COUNTY AND WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST HENNEPIN COUNTY BY 6 PM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL..GUSTY WINDS OF 50 MPH AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT THE CITIES OF WACONIA..CHASKA AND THE LAKE MINNETONKA AREA BETWEEN 530 PM AND 600 PM. JPR
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 5:30 PM CDT, 31 minutes before
MNZ014-013-072300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST CLOUD MINNESOTA 530 PM CDT MON JUN 7 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS EXPIRED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR KANDIYOHI AND MEEKER COUNTIES HAVE EXPIRED AT 530 PM. MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED AT 445 PM NEAR LAKE LILLIAN WHICH IS 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WILLMAR. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS DIMINISHED AS THEY MOVED NORTHEAST INTO STEARNS COUNTY. RAY
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 5:36 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
MNZ014-013-072300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST CLOUD MINNESOTA 530 PM CDT MON JUN 7 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS EXPIRED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR KANDIYOHI AND MEEKER COUNTIES HAVE EXPIRED AT 530 PM. MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED AT 445 PM NEAR LAKE LILLIAN WHICH IS 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WILLMAR. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS DIMINISHED AS THEY MOVED NORTHEAST INTO STEARNS COUNTY. RAY
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 5:55 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
MNZ015-016-070030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN 555 PM CDT MON JUN 7 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE WEST SUBURBS OF THE TWIN CITIES... AT 545 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE STRETCHED ACROSS THE WESTERN SUBURBS OF THE TWIN CITIES FROM LAKE MINNETONKA TO SHAKOPEE. PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED WITHIN THE LAST 15 MINUTES FROM THE LAKE MINNETONKA AREA TO CHASKA AND CHANHASSEN. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD MOVE ACROSS THE MAINLY THE NORTHERN SUBURBS OF THE TWIN CITIES BETWEEN 6 PM AND 630 PM. ELSEWHERE...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ACROSS PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MINNESOTA AND EXTREME WESTERN WISCONSIN. THEY WERE SCATTERED SOUTH OF A LINE FROM ALEXANDRIA MINNESOTA TO MONDOVI WISCONSIN. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. MBM
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 5:55 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
MNZ015-016-070030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN 555 PM CDT MON JUN 7 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE WEST SUBURBS OF THE TWIN CITIES... AT 545 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE STRETCHED ACROSS THE WESTERN SUBURBS OF THE TWIN CITIES FROM LAKE MINNETONKA TO SHAKOPEE. PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED WITHIN THE LAST 15 MINUTES FROM THE LAKE MINNETONKA AREA TO CHASKA AND CHANHASSEN. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD MOVE ACROSS THE MAINLY THE NORTHERN SUBURBS OF THE TWIN CITIES BETWEEN 6 PM AND 630 PM. ELSEWHERE...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ACROSS PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MINNESOTA AND EXTREME WESTERN WISCONSIN. THEY WERE SCATTERED SOUTH OF A LINE FROM ALEXANDRIA MINNESOTA TO MONDOVI WISCONSIN. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. MBM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 4:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Martin | 56 min |
| Jun 7, 6:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 30 min |
| Jun 7, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Renville | 45 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 1993Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993
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.