Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 208, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 6, 1994, 9:13 PM CDT for Steele County, Minnesota. It was in force for 34 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 6, 1994, 9:13 PM CDT (02:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 6, 1994, 9:47 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Steele County, MN
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 799 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 498 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 522 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KRST 070215 RRA SVRRST MNC147-070300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN 913 PM CDT THU OCT 6 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ROCHESTER MN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA ...WESTERN STEELE COUNTY THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE TOWNS OF OWATONNA...MERIDEN...AND DEERFIELD. AT 901PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS REPORTED IN EASTERN WASECA COUNTY MOVING RAPIDLY INTO THE WEST PART OF STEELE COUNTY. THE TOWNS OF MERIDEN AND DEERFIELD CAN EXPECT STORMS TO MOVE THROUGH BY 915PM. THE STORM SHOULD BE NEAR OWATONNA BY 925PM. GET AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND GO TO YOUR BASEMENT TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM DAMAGING WIND. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL... DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM. PEOPLE IN MOBILE HOMES SHOULD GO TO A STORM SHELTER. SCS
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 6, 8:22 PM CDT, 51 minutes before
MNZ060>063-067>070-070215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN 820 PM CDT THU OCT 6 1994 ...MORE STORMS WITH GUSTY WINDS ARE MOVING INTO THE SOUTHWESTERN TWIN CITIES METRO... THUNDERSTORMS WITH GUSTS OF 50 OR 55 MPH WERE JUST BEGINNING TO MOVE INTO THE SOUTHWESTERN PORTIONS OF THE TWIN CITIES METRO. AT 815 PM... THE STORMS WERE ALONG THE MINNESOTA RIVER...FROM JORDAN TO MANKATO. MOVEMENT WAS RAPIDLY NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. GUSTS OF 50 OR 55 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED...ENOUGH TO TAKE DOWN TWIGS AND SMALL BRANCHES. SMALL HAIL MAY ALSO OCCUR. A NUMBER OF STORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH CITIES SUCH AS BELLE PLAINE... SHAKOPEE...JORDAN AND CHASKA BY 9 PM...AND THEN THROUGH THE REST OF THE TWIN CITIES METRO. TDK
Special weather statement, Oct 6, 8:55 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
MNZ042>044-046-048>051-054>058-064-070245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST CLOUD MN 855 PM CDT THU OCT 6 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT EAST OF A LINE FROM ALEXANDRIA TO REDWOOD FALLS TO FAIRMONT... AT 850 PM RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED IN A LINE FROM NORTHWEST TODD COUNTY TO SOUTH CENTRAL KANDIYOHI COUNTY. THE STRONGEST STORM...NEAR OSAKIS IN SOUTHWEST TODD COUNTY...IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS FREQUENT LIGHTNING. THE LINE CONTINUES TO MOVE EAST AT 15 MPH...WHILE THE INDIVIDUAL STORMS MOVE TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. PERSONS IN TODD AND KANDIYOHI COUNTIES CAN EXPECT THESE STORMS THROUGH 1000 PM AND SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER DEVELOPS. HAMEN
Special weather statement, Oct 6, 8:58 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
MNZ042>044-046-048>051-054>058-064-070245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION FOR STORM MOVEMENT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST CLOUD MN 855 PM CDT THU OCT 6 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT EAST OF A LINE FROM ALEXANDRIA TO REDWOOD FALLS TO FAIRMONT... AT 850 PM RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED IN A LINE FROM NORTHWEST TODD COUNTY TO SOUTH CENTRAL KANDIYOHI COUNTY. THE STRONGEST STORM...NEAR OSAKIS IN SOUTHWEST TODD COUNTY...IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. THE LINE CONTINUES TO MOVE EAST AT 15 MPH...WHILE THE INDIVIDUAL STORMS MOVE TO THE NORTH NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. PERSONS IN TODD AND KANDIxYOHI COUNTIES CAN EXPECT THESE STORMS THROUGH 1000 PM AND SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER DEVELOPS. HAMEN
Special weather statement, Oct 6, 9:10 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
MNZ052-053-060>063-068>070-070315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN 910 PM CDT THU OCT 6 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH THE WESTERN METRO... AT 905 PM...AN OFF-DUTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EMPLOYEE REPORTED GUSTS OF 50 MPH AND MARBLE SIZE HAIL IN CHANHASSEN... OR ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MINNEAPOLIS. THE STORM WAS MOVING RAPIDLY NORTH AT 55 MPH...AND WILL MOVE ACROSS THE LAKE MINNETONKA AREA...THROUGH PLYMOUTH...MAPLE GROVE AND INTO ANOKA BY 945 PM. TDK
Special weather statement, Oct 6, 9:12 PM CDT, 1 minute before
MNZ030>096-070315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN 912 PM CDT THU OCT 6 1994 ...STATUS ON SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 836 IN MINNESOTA... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS REMOVED THE FOLLOWING MINNESOTA COUNTIES FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 836... STEVENS...YELLOW MEDICINE...LYON...MURRAY...COTTONWOOD...NOBLES...AND JACKSON. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT ROUGHLY EAST OF A LINE FROM FAIRMONT TO ALEXANDRIA...SOUTH OF A LINE FROM ALEXANDRIA TO CAMBRIDGE...AND WEST OF A LINE FROM CAMBRIDGE TO ALBERT LEA. THE ENTIRE TWIN CITIES METRO AREA REMAINS IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL MIDNIGHT. NAISTAT
Special weather statement, Oct 6, 9:12 PM CDT, 1 minute before
MNZ030>096-070315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN 912 PM CDT THU OCT 6 1994 ...STATUS ON SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 836 IN MINNESOTA... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS REMOVED THE FOLLOWING MINNESOTA COUNTIES FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 836... STEVENS...YELLOW MEDICINE...LYON...MURRAY...COTTONWOOD...NOBLES...AND JACKSON. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT ROUGHLY EAST OF A LINE FROM FAIRMONT TO ALEXANDRIA...SOUTH OF A LINE FROM ALEXANDRIA TO CAMBRIDGE...AND WEST OF A LINE FROM CAMBRIDGE TO ALBERT LEA. THE ENTIRE TWIN CITIES METRO AREA REMAINS IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL MIDNIGHT. NAISTAT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sibley | 47 min |
| Oct 6, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Waseca | 36 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.