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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 8, 1993Dodge County, Olmsted County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 1993, 2:06 PM CDT for Dodge County, Olmsted County, Minnesota. It was in force for 39 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 8, 1993, 2:06 PM CDT (19:06 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 1993, 2:45 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Dodge County, MN, Olmsted County, MN

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 121 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 KRST 081907
TORRST
MNC039-109-081945-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN
206 PM CDT TUE JUN 8 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ROCHESTER MN HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  245 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA
 
   ...DODGE COUNTY...OLMSTED COUNTY
 
AT 200 PM TORNADOES WERE REPORTED 2 MILES SOUTH OF GRAND MEADOW...
25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROCHESTER AND BLOOMING PRARIE...30 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF ROCHESTER. THESE TORNADOES WERE MOVING TO THE
NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THESE TORNADOES WILL PASS THROUGH STEWARTVILLE
BY 225 AND ROCHESTER AND DODGE CENTER BY 230 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.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE IN THE
PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A BASEMENT AND GET UNDER SOME STURDY
FURNITURE OR A WORKBENCH.  IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...GO TO A
SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON
CARS AND MOBILE HOMES.
 
 
 
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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, 1:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Chisago	52 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.