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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 8, 1993Fillmore County, Houston County, Minnesota

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 1993-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 1993-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 500 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.
 
 
 
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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.
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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 7:08 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXLac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine37 min
Jun 7, 7:46 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXRedwood, Renville29 min
Jun 7, 8:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXMcLeod, Renville, Sibley55 min
Jun 7, 8:21 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXKandiyohi, Meeker39 min
Jun 8, 1:26 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXAnoka, Ramsey, Washington34 min
Jun 8, 1:27 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXMower33 min
Jun 8, 1:41 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXFreeborn, Mower19 min
Jun 8, 1:53 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXChisago52 min
Jun 8, 2:06 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXDodge, Olmsted39 min
Jun 8, 2:13 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXFillmore47 min
Jun 8, 2:43 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXOlmsted32 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.