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Tornado Warning 33, NWS Twin Cities, MN

August 7, 1994Renville County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Aug 7, 1994, 5:47 PM CDT for Renville County, Minnesota. It was in force for 28 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Aug 7, 1994, 5:47 PM CDT (22:47 UTC)
Expired: Aug 7, 1994, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Whole counties

County Renville County, MN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 7, 6:22 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Fairfax, MN	A tornado touched briefly mear Fairfax and reportedly did no damage.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 107 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1220 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 171 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMSP 072247
TORMSP
MNC129-072315-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN
547 PM CDT SUN AUG 7 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MINNEAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
 
   ...EASTERN RENVILLE COUNTY
 
AT 545 PM RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH OF OLIVIA.
EARLIER TORNADO WAS SIGHTED WITH THIS STORM IN KANDIYOHI COUNTY.
 
SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH INCLUDED OLIVIA...HECTOR AND CHURCHILL.
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR STAIRWAY TO AVOID COLLAPSING
WALLS.  IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAIL8ABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN A CENTRAL
ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET OR BATHROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.
USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.
 
 
SCOTT
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 7, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Mille Lacs	61 min
Aug 7, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Meeker	63 min
Aug 7, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Yellow Medicine	43 min
Aug 7, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Redwood	48 min
Aug 7, 5:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi	35 min
Aug 7, 6:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Renville	38 min
Aug 7, 6:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Redwood	25 min
Aug 7, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Brown, Nicollet	31 min
Aug 7, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Scott, Sibley	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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.