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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 8, 1993Freeborn County, Mower County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 1993, 1:41 PM CDT for Freeborn County, Mower County, Minnesota. It was in force for 19 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 1993, 1:41 PM CDT (18:41 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1993, 2:00 PM CDT
In force
19 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Freeborn County, MN, Mower County, MN

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 138 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 081842
TORRST
MNC047-099-081900-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN
141 PM CDT TUE JUN 8 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ROCHESTER MN HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  200 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA
 
   ...EASTERN FREEBORN COUNTY
 
IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA
 
   ...MOWER COUNTY
 
AT 140 PM NUMEROUS REPORTS OF FUNNEL CLOUDS AND TORNADOES HAVE BEEN
REPORTED IN WORTH AND MITCHELL COUNTIES IN IOWA. THESE STORMS WERE
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH AND WILL PASS THROUGH THE CITIES OF AUSTIN
AND ALBERT LEA BY 150 PM.
 
 
HEAD FOR THE BASEMENT NOW!  DON'T GO OUTSIDE TO LOOK FOR THE
TORNADO...IT COULD BE BEARING DOWN ON YOUR LOCATION.  GET UNDER
SOME STURDY FURNITURE...OR UNDERNEATH A STAIRWAY TO AVOID
WIND BLOWN DEBRIS.  MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED.
 
 
 
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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, 1:27 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXMower33 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.