Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at May 7, 1993, 8:05 PM CDT for Chippewa County, Minnesota. It was in force for 40 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 7, 1993, 8:05 PM CDT (01:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 1993, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chippewa County, MN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Montevideo, MN | Several farmsteads were damaged by a tornado causing an estimated $1.5 million dollars damage. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 449 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -114 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 975 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 266 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSTC 080109 COR TORSTC MNC023-080145- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST CLOUD MINNESOTA 805 PM CDT FRI MAY 7 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST CLOUD MINNESOTA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA ...CHIPPEWA COUNTY AT 805 PM TORNADOES WERE REPORTED IN SOUTHERN CHIPPEWA COUNTY 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF MONTEVIDEO AND 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MONTEVIDEO. THE TORNADOES WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR TOWARD MAYNARD GLUEK AND CLARA CITY. SEEK SHELTER IN THE BASEMENT UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. HAYS NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 49 min |
| May 7, 7:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Redwood | 35 min |
| May 7, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood | 42 min |
| May 7, 8:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Renville | 38 min |
| May 7, 8:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 59 min |
| May 7, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood, Renville | 32 min |
| May 7, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 35 min |
| May 8, 2:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Carver, Sibley | 2 hr |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.