Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1993, 8:04 PM CDT for Renville County, Minnesota. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 1993, 8:04 PM CDT (01:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1993, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Renville County, MN
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 186 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -212 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 608 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KMSP 170105 SVRMPX MNC129-170145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN 804 PM CDT WED JUN 16 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MINNEAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA ...RENVILLE COUNTY AT 8:03 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BELVIEW...WHICH IS 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF REDWOOD FALLS. MOVEMENT OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS TO THE EAST..NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE STORM INCLUDE...BECHYN...SACRED HEART...RENVILLE...AND OLIVIA. THIS STORM PRODUCED 2 INCH DIAMETER HAIL AS IT PASSED THROUGH THE MILROY AND VESTA AREAS AT 7:20 PM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL... DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM. PEOPLE IN MOBILE HOMES SHOULD GO TO A STORM SHELTER. DRB &
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 16, 6:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
MNZ013-015-017-018-170040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN 650 PM CDT WED JUN 16 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA... AT 635 PM...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPED RAPIDLY OVER LYON COUNTY IN THE VICINITY OF MARSHALL. MOVEMENT OF THE STORM WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG WINDS... HAIL...HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PERSONS IN THE MARSHALL AND LYND AREAS SHOULD MOVE INDOORS WHEN THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. PRESENT MOVEMENT WOULD BRING THE STORM INTO EASTERN YELLOW MEDICINE AND WESTERN REDWOOD COUNTY BY 730 PM. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN A RANDOM FASHION ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA. THE STORMS WERE LOCATED SOUTHWEST OF ST CLOUD NEAR BROOTEN TO COLD SPRING AND NORTH OF THE TWIN CITIES NEAR BUFFALO AND ANOKA. MOVEMENT WAS NOT YET DETERMINED BUT WILL LIKELY BE IN AN EASTERLY DIRECTION. DWE
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 6:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
MNZ013-015-017-018-170040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN 650 PM CDT WED JUN 16 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA... AT 635 PM...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPED RAPIDLY OVER LYON COUNTY IN THE VICINITY OF MARSHALL. MOVEMENT OF THE STORM WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG WINDS... HAIL...HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PERSONS IN THE MARSHALL AND LYND AREAS SHOULD MOVE INDOORS WHEN THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. PRESENT MOVEMENT WOULD BRING THE STORM INTO EASTERN YELLOW MEDICINE AND WESTERN REDWOOD COUNTY BY 730 PM. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN A RANDOM FASHION ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA. THE STORMS WERE LOCATED SOUTHWEST OF ST CLOUD NEAR BROOTEN TO COLD SPRING AND NORTH OF THE TWIN CITIES NEAR BUFFALO AND ANOKA. MOVEMENT WAS NOT YET DETERMINED BUT WILL LIKELY BE IN AN EASTERLY DIRECTION. DWE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood | 61 min |
| Jun 16, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 42 min |
| Jun 16, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 40 min |
| Jun 16, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker | 46 min |
| Jun 16, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 21 min |
| Jun 16, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Stearns | 39 min |
| Jun 16, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sherburne | 54 min |
| Jun 16, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood, Renville | 39 min |
| Jun 16, 9:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | McLeod | 43 min |
| Jun 16, 9:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Sibley | 118 min |
| Jun 16, 11:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Renville | 117 min |
| Jun 16, 11:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Sibley | 2 hr |
| Jun 16, 11:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Redwood | 2 hr |
| Jun 16, 11:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | McLeod | 104 min |
| Jun 17, 1:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Redwood, Renville | 113 min |
| Jun 17, 1:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Sibley | 113 min |
| Jun 17, 3:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Goodhue, Wabasha | 2 hr |
| Jun 17, 3:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Rice | 2 hr |
| Jun 17, 4:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Le Sueur, Nicollet | 3 hr |
| Jun 17, 4:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Dodge, Rice, Steele, Waseca | 3 hr |
| Jun 17, 4:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Goodhue, Olmsted, Wabasha | 3 hr |
| Jun 17, 4:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Winona | 3 hr |
| Jun 17, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Houston | 36 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.