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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Twin Cities, MN

July 7, 1994Carver County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jul 7, 1994, 4:50 PM CDT for Carver County, Minnesota. It was in force for 25 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 7, 1994, 4:50 PM CDT (21:50 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 1994, 5:15 PM CDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Whole counties

County Carver County, MN

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KHON), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 362 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 1994-07-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 1994-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 103 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
542 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
203 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 7, 3:09 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXWabasha, Winona36 min
Jul 7, 3:20 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXKandiyohi, Meeker25 min
Jul 7, 3:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXMcLeod44 min
Jul 7, 3:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBlue Earth, Le Sueur, Nicollet34 min
Jul 7, 3:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXSibley61 min
Jul 7, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXCarver, Scott61 min
Jul 7, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXMcLeod61 min
Jul 7, 4:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBlue Earth, Le Sueur, Nicollet40 min
Jul 7, 4:29 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXCarver, Scott, Sibley46 min
Jul 7, 5:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXSherburne52 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.