Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 1994, 5:40 PM CDT for Dodge County, Steele County, Minnesota. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 17, 1994, 5:40 PM CDT (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 1994, 6:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Dodge County, MN, Steele County, MN
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 646 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -116 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 538 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KRST 172244 RRA SVRRST MNC147-039-172340- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN 540 PM CDT FRI JUN 17 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ROCHESTER MN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 640 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA ...STEELE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA ...WESTERN DODGE COUNTY AT 535 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF OWATONNA. IT WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR...AND SHOULD REACH THE CITY OF OWATONNA BY 6 PM. SOME OTHER COMMUNITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE CLINTON FALLS AND MERTON. PEOPLE IN THE A&FFECTED AREA SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. MOTORISTS SHOULD GET OFF THE ROAD AND FIND A SAFE SHELTER. TESKE
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, Jun 17, 4:52 PM CDT, 48 minutes before
MNZ038-045-052-053-172300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED FOR TIME REF.. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN 452 PM CDT FRI JUN 17 1994 THE FOLLOWING MINNESOTA COUNTIES IN EASTCENTRAL MINNESOTA ARE NO LONGER INCLUDED IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 438 AS OF 445 PM CDT THIS FRIDAY AFTERNOON. KANABEC...PINE...CHISAGO... AND ISANTI. WET
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 4:52 PM CDT, 48 minutes before
MNZ038-045-052-053-172300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN 452 PM CDT FRI JUN 17 1994 THE FOLLOWING MINNESOTA COUNTIES IN EASTCENTRAL MINNESOTA ARE NO LONGER INCLUDED IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 438 AS OF 445 PM CST THIS FRIDAY AFTERNOON. KANABEC...PINE...CHISAGO... AND ISANTI. WET
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 5:12 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
MNZ038-045-052-053-172300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED FOR TIME REF.. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN 452 PM CDT FRI JUN 17 1994 THE FOLLOWING MINNESOTA COUNTIES IN EASTCENTRAL MINN$ESOTA ARE NO LONGER INCLUDED IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 438 AS OF 445 PM CDT THIS FRIDAY AFTERNOON. KANABEC...PINE...CHISAGO... AND ISANTI. WET
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 5:30 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
MNC019-037-139-WIC033-035-091-093-172330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION TO LAST PARAGRAPH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN 530 PM CDT FRI JUN 17 1994 ...FAR SOUTHERN MINNESOTA AND WESTCENTRAL WISCONSIN CONTINUES TO GET HIT WITH VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS... NUMEROUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...GENERALLY IN THE MANKATO.. ST JAMES...FAIRMONT AREA. AROUND 5PM 65 MPH WINDS WERE REPORTED IN MANKATO. IN ADDITION TO VERY STRONG WINDS AND HAIL...TORRENTIAL RAINS CAPABLE OF CAUSING FLOODING REMAIN A THREAT ACROSS MUCH OF FAR SOUTHERN MINNESOTA. AT 525PM SOME OF THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM NEAR WORTHINGTON TO NEAR JACKSON IN JACKSON COUNTY...TO JUST NORTHWEST OF FAIRMONT IN MARTIN COUNTY...THEN INTO THE MANKATO...WASECA AREA. ROADS COULD BECOME FLOODED IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS DUMP COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF RAIN. IN EASTERN PEPIN COUNTY...WISCONSIN JUST EAST OF DURAND A HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING THUNDERSTORM HAS REMAINED NEARLY STATIONARY SINCE AROUND 430 PM. THIS AREA COULD EXPERIENCE SOME FLOODING. PAULSON
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 5:31 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
MNC019-037-139-WIC033-035-091-093-172330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN 530 PM CDT FRI JUN 17 1994 ...FAR SOUTHERN MINNESOTA AND WESTCENTRAL WISCONSIN CONTINUES TO GET HIT WITH VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS... NUMEROUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...GENERALLY IN THE MANKATO.. ST JAMES...FAIRMONT AREA. AROUND 5PM 65 MPH WINDS WERE REPORTED IN MANKATO. IN ADDITION TO VERY STRONG WINDS AND HAIL...TORRENTIAL RAINS CAPABLE OF CAUSING FLOODING REMAIN A THREAT ACROSS MUCH OF FAR SOUTHERN MINNESOTA. AT 525PM SOME OF THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM NEAR WORTHINGTON TO NEAR JACKSON IN JACKSON COUNTY...TO JUST NORTHWEST OF FAIRMONT IN MARTIN COUNTY...THEN INTO THE MANKATO...WASECA AREA. ROA COULD BECOME FLOODED IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS DUMP COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF RAIN. IN EASTERN PEPIN COUNTY...WISCONSIN JUST EAST OF DURAND A HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING THUNDERSTORM HAS REMAINED NEARLY STATIONARY SINCE AROUND 430PMTHIS AREA COULD EXPERIENCE SOME FLOODING. PAULSON
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 5:36 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
MNC019-037-139-WIC033-035-091-093-172330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION TO LAST PARAGRAPH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN 530 PM CDT FRI JUN 17 1994 ...FAR SOUTHERN MINNESOTA AND WESTCENTRAL WISCONSIN CONTINUES TO GET HIT WITH VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS... NUMEROUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...GENERALLY IN THE MANKATO.. ST JAMES...FAIRMONT AREA. AROUND 5PM 65 MPH WINDS WERE REPORTED IN MANKATO. IN ADDITION TO VERY STRONG WINDS AND HAIL...TORRENTIAL RAINS CAPABLE OF CAUSING FLOODING REMAIN A THREAT ACROSS MUCH OF FAR SOUTHERN MINNESOTA. AT 525PM SOME OF THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM NEAR WORTHINGTON TO NEAR JACKSON IN JACKSON COUNTY...TO JUST NORTHWEST OF FAIRMONT IN MARTIN COUNTY...THEN INTO THE MANKATO...WASECA AREA. ROADS COULD BECOME FLOODED IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS DUMP COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF RAIN. IN EASTERN PEPIN COUNTY...WISCONSIN JUST EAST OF DURAND A HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING THUNDERSTORM HAS REMAINED NEARLY STATIONARY SINCE AROUND 430 PM. THIS AREA COULD EXPERIENCE SOME FLOODING. PAULSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Nicollet, Waseca | 34 min |
| Jun 17, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Martin, Watonwan | 57 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994
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.