Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 1993, 5:43 AM CDT for Dodge County, Mower County, Minnesota. It was in force for 32 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 31, 1993, 5:43 AM CDT (10:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 1993, 6:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Dodge County, MN, Mower County, MN
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 00:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 1153 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -243 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1041 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 246 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KRST 311044 RRA SVRRST MNC039-099-311115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN 543 AM CDT SAT JUL 31 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ROCHESTER MN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA ...SOUTHERN DODGE COUNTY...NORTHERN MOWER COUNTY AT 535 AM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES NORTH OF AUSTIN NEAR THE TOWN OF WALTHAM. THIS STORM WILL PASS THROUGH THE TOWNS OF BROWNSDALE...HAYFIELD AND DODGE CENTER BY 6 AM AS THESE STORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. WHEN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...STAY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. PROTECT YOURSELF FROM DAMAGING WINDS OR HAIL BY KEEPING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LISTEN TO YOUR RADIO OR TELEVISION... BUT TURN OFF ALL OTHER ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES. DO NOT USE THE PHONE DURING PERIODS OF FREQUENT LIGHTNING. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 3:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Watonwan | 27 min |
| Jul 31, 4:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn | 29 min |
| Jul 31, 4:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth | 29 min |
| Jul 31, 5:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Nicollet | 36 min |
| Jul 31, 8:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Renville, Sibley | 55 min |
| Jul 31, 8:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Nicollet | 26 min |
| Jul 31, 9:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Hennepin, Wright | 61 min |
| Jul 31, 9:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker | 46 min |
| Jul 31, 9:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sherburne | 50 min |
| Jul 31, 9:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Hennepin, Scott | 43 min |
| Jul 31, 9:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Steele | 30 min |
| Jul 31, 10:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Chisago, Ramsey, Washington | 59 min |
| Jul 31, 10:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker | 57 min |
| Jul 31, 10:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sherburne | 55 min |
| Jul 31, 10:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 63 min |
| Jul 31, 10:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 52 min |
| Jul 31, 11:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 61 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.