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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 8, 1993Chisago County, Minnesota; Polk County, Wisconsin

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 1993, 1:53 PM CDT for Chisago County, Minnesota; Polk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 52 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 8, 1993, 1:53 PM CDT (18:53 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 1993, 2:45 PM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Chisago County, MN, Polk County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 101 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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 KMSP 081902
TORMSP
MNC025-WIC095-081945-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN
153 PM CDT TUE JUN 8 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MINNEAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  245 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN CHISAGO COUNTY
 
 
IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN
 
   ...POLK COUNTY
 
AT 155 PM CDT A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED BY THE WASHINGTON COUNTY
SHERIFF NEAR HUGO...WHICH IS ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF DOWNTOWN ST.
PAUL.
 
WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS
MOVING NORTHEAST OUT OF NORTHEAST WASHINGTON COUNTY AT 158 PM CDT
TOWARDS CENTER CITY AND TAYLOR FALLS.  THE STORM WILL ALSO
MOVE INTO POLK COUNTY AND THE CITY OF BALSM LAKE SHORTLY AFTER 200 PM
CDT.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR STAIRWAY TO AVOID COLLAPSING
WALLS.  IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN A CENTRAL
ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET OR BATHROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.
USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.
EDWARDS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 7:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine	37 min
Jun 7, 7:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Redwood, Renville	29 min
Jun 7, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	McLeod, Renville, Sibley	55 min
Jun 7, 8:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi, Meeker	39 min
Jun 8, 12:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Fillmore, Houston	50 min
Jun 8, 1:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Anoka, Ramsey, Washington	34 min
Jun 8, 1:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Mower	33 min
Jun 8, 1:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Freeborn, Mower	19 min
Jun 8, 2:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Dodge, Olmsted	39 min
Jun 8, 2:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Fillmore	47 min
Jun 8, 2:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Olmsted	32 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.