Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1994, 8:24 PM CDT for Chippewa County, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 28, 1994, 8:24 PM CDT (01:24 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 1994, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Chippewa County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2398 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KSTC 290124 RRA SVRSTC MNC067-023-290215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST CLOUD MINNESOTA 824 PM CDT SAT MAY 28 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST CLOUD MINNESOTA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA ...WESTERN KANDIYOHI COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA ...EASTERN CHIPPEWA COUNTY AT 815 PM A SPOTTER IN CHIPPEWA COUNTY REPORTED 1 INCH HAIL JUST EAST OF MONTEVIDEO IN CENTRAL CHIPPEWA COUNTY. THE STORM CONTAINING THIS HAIL WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE GLUEK...CLARA CITY...RAYMOND...AND PRIAM. IF OUTSIDE..FIND A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER TREES. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DO NOT USE ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES. PARKIN NNNN
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, May 28, 8:05 PM CDT, 19 minutes before
MNZ042>044-046-048>051-054>058-064-290200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST CLOUD MN 805 PM CDT SAT MAY 28 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH CHIPPEWA COUNTY... AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL... GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WAS MOVING THROUGH CHIPPEWA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AND SHOULD PASS OVER THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE COUNTY BY 9 PM. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS AND SEEK SHELTER IF NECESSARY. PARKIN
Special weather statement, May 28, 8:06 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
MNZ042>044-046-048>051-054>058-064-290200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST CLOUD MN 805 PM CDT SAT MAY 28 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH CHIPPEWA COUNTY... AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL... GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WAS MOVING THROUGH CHIPPEWA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AND SHOULD PASS OVER THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE COUNTY BY 9 PM. \PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS AND SEEK SHELTER IF NECESSARY. PARKIN
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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.