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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 8, 1993Mower County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 1993, 1:27 PM CDT for Mower County, Minnesota. It was in force for 33 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 1993, 1:27 PM CDT (18:27 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1993, 2:00 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Whole counties

County Mower County, MN

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 147 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

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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, 12:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXFillmore, Houston50 min
Jun 8, 1:26 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXAnoka, Ramsey, Washington34 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.