Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1994, 7:01 PM CDT for Anoka County, Washington County, Minnesota. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 1994, 7:01 PM CDT (00:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 1994, 7:28 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Anoka County, MN, Washington County, MN
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 54 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
- 435 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1437 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 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 KMSP 260008 SVRMPX MNC003-163-260100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN 701 PM CDT SAT JUN 25 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MINNEAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA ...EASTERN ANOKA COUNTY...NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY AT 700 PM..RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN EASTERN ANOKA COUNTY OR ABOUT 25 MILES NORTH OF DOWNTOWN ST. PAUL. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. SOME CITIES IN THE PATH OF THE STIRM INCLUDE LINO LAKES..CENTERVILLE..FOREST LAKE..HUGO..AND MARINE ON ST. CROIX. 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. JPR
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 25, 6:10 PM CDT, 51 minutes before
MNZ039>040-046>047-260300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL MN 610 PM CDT SAT JUN 25 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CLEARED FOR A VERY SMALL PART OF WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... THE FOLLOWING FOUR COUNTIES OF WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA HAVE BEEN CLEARED FROM THE WATCH... BIG STONE...GRANT...STEVENS...TRAVERSE. SOME CITIES CLEARED INCLUDE WHEATON...ELBOW LAKE...MORRIS AND ORTONVILLE. HOWEVER...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES UNTIL 10 PM FOR ALL OTHER COUNTIES IN THE ORIGINAL WATCH MESSAGE. IN OTHER WORDS... THE WATCH CONTINUES FOR AN AREA BOUNDED BY A LINE FROM ORTONVILLE TO ALEXANDRIA...TO PINE CITY...TO AUSTIN AND THEN LUVERNE. TDK
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 6:10 PM CDT, 51 minutes before
MNZ039>040-046>047-260300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL MN 610 PM CDT SAT JUN 25 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CLEARED FOR A VERY SMALL PART OF WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... THE FOLLOWING FOUR COUNTIES OF WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA HAVE BEEN CLEARED FROM THE WATCH... BIG STONE...GRANT...STEVENS...TRAVERSE. SOME CITIES CLEARED INCLUDE WHEATON...ELBOW LAKE...MORRIS AND ORTONVILLE. HOWEVER...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES UNTIL 10 PM FOR ALL OTHER COUNTIES IN THE ORIGINAL WATCH MESSAGE. IN OTHER WORDS... THE WATCH CONTINUES FOR AN AREA BOUNDED BY A LINE FROM ORTONVILLE TO ALEXANDRIA...TO PINE CITY...TO AUSTIN AND THEN LUVERNE. TDK
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 6:28 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
WIZ014-015-023-025-026-260130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL MN 628 PM CDT SAT JUN 25 1994 AT 620 PM...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SEVERAL AREAS OF WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN..POSSIBLE HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WERE LOCATED IN SOUTHERN POLK AND NORTHERN ST. CROIX COUNTY NEAR STAR PRAIRIE AND LITTLE FALLS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN DUNN COUNTY NEAR DOWNSVILLE..AND MERIDIEAN..AND IN PEPIN COUNTY NEAR THE CITY OF DURAND. MOST OF THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE 25 TO 40 MILES WEST..NORTHWEST OF EAU CLAIRE. TORRENTIAL RAINS..HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MILES AN HOUR. A ROAD WAS REPORTED WASHED OUT IN SOUTHERN ST. CROIX COUNTY NEAR STAR PRAIRIE. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING OVER THE SAME AREAS AND MORE AREAS OF LOCALIZED FLOODING ARE POSSIBLE. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. JPR
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 6:28 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
WIZ014-015-023-025-026-260130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL MN 628 PM CDT SAT JUN 25 1994 AT 620 PM...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SEVERAL AREAS OF WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN..POSSIBLE HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WERE LOCATED IN SOUTHERN POLK AND NORTHERN ST. CROIX COUNTY NEAR STAR PRAIRIE AND LITTLE FALLS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN DUNN COUNTY NEAR DOWNSVILLE..AND MERIDIEAN..AND IN PEPIN COUNTY NEAR THE CITY OF DURAND. MOST OF THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE 25 TO 40 MILES WEST..NORTHWEST OF EAU CLAIRE. TORRENTIAL RAINS..HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MILES AN HOUR. A ROAD WAS REPORTED WASHED OUT IN SOUTHERN ST. CROIX COUNTY NEAR STAR PRAIRIE. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING OVER THE SAME AREAS AND MORE AREAS OF LOCALIZED FLOODING ARE POSSIBLE. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. JPR
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 6:55 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
MNZ039>041-046>048-054>056-064-071>072-097>098-260300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL MN 655 PM CDT SAT JUN 25 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CLEARED FOR PART OF EXTREME WESTERN MINNESOTA... THE FOLLOWING TEN COUNTIES OF WESTERN MINNESOTA HAVE JUST BEEN CLEARED FROM THE WATCH...CHIPPEWA...DOUGLAS...LAC QUI PARLE... LINCOLN...LYON...PIPESTONE...POPE...ROCK...SWIFT...AND YELLOW MEDICINE. THIS IS IN ADDITION TO THE FOUR COUNTIES CLEARED EARLIER...WHICH WERE BIG STONE...GRANT...STEVENS AND TRAVERSE. HOWEVER...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES UNTIL 10 PM FOR ALL OTHER COUNTIES IN THE ORIGINAL WATCH MESSAGE. SPECIFICALLY... THE WATCH CONTINUES FOR AN AREA BOUNDED BY A LINE FROM WORTHINGTON TO LONG PRAIRIE...TO PINE CITY...TO AUSTIN. TDK
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 6:56 PM CDT, 5 minutes before
MNZ039>041-046>048-054>056-064-071>072-097>098-260300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL MN 655 PM CDT SAT JUN 25 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CLEARED FOR PART
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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.