Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1993, 12:10 PM CDT for Fillmore County, Houston County, Minnesota. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1993, 12:10 PM CDT (17:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1993, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fillmore County, MN, Houston County, MN
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 81 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 500 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 604 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KRST 081711 RRA SVRRST MNC045-055-081800- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN 1210 PM CDT TUE JUN 8 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ROCHESTER MN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA ...EASTERN FILLMORE COUNTY...WESTERN HOUSTON COUNTY AT 1205 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH OF DECORAH IOWA...60 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ROCHESTER. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL HIT MABEL AT 1225 PM... AND CALEDONIA BY 1 PM. THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL AND MAY PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING. STAY INDOORS...REMAIN CALM AND BE READY TO MOVE QUICKLY TO THE BASEMENT. &
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 8, 10:28 AM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
MNZ015>019-082300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...MINNESOTA SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL MN 1030 AM CDT TUE JUN 8 1993 ...SEVERE WEATHER LIKELY IN THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF MINNESOTA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER IN KANSAS CITY INDICATES THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE A LIKELIHOOD OVER THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF MINNESOTA DURING THE AFTERNOON AND INTO THIS EVENING. THE AREA WITH THE GREATEST THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER IS LOCATED EAST OF A LINE FROM THE TWIN CITIES...TO MANKATO AND NEAR FAIRMONT. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ALREADY BEGUN DEVELOPING OVER IOWA THIS MORNING AND WILL MOVE QUICKLY INTO THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF THE STATE BY THE AFTERNOON. WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE VERY FAVORABLE FOR RAPID SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT AND THE POSSIBLITLY OF TORNADOES IN THIS AREA AS WELL AS ADJACENT SECTIONS OF IOWA AND WISCONSIN. < THIS IS A POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION AND SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN LIGHTLY. ALL PERSONS IN THE THREATENED AREA ARE URGED TO REVIEW SEVERE WEATHER SAFETY RULES AND MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR COMERCIAL RADIO AND TELEVISION FOR POSSIBLE WATCHES AND WARNINGS. DWE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine | 37 min |
| Jun 7, 7:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Redwood, Renville | 29 min |
| Jun 7, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Renville, Sibley | 55 min |
| Jun 7, 8:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker | 39 min |
| Jun 8, 1:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Anoka, Ramsey, Washington | 34 min |
| Jun 8, 1:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Mower | 33 min |
| Jun 8, 1:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Freeborn, Mower | 19 min |
| Jun 8, 1:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chisago | 52 min |
| Jun 8, 2:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dodge, Olmsted | 39 min |
| Jun 8, 2:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Fillmore | 47 min |
| Jun 8, 2:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Olmsted | 32 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.