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Tornado Warning 37, NWS Twin Cities, MN

August 7, 1994Faribault County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Aug 7, 1994, 8:51 PM CDT for Faribault County, Minnesota. It was in force for 39 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 7, 1994, 8:51 PM CDT (01:51 UTC)
Expired
Aug 7, 1994, 9:30 PM CDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Whole counties

County Faribault County, MN

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 134 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, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 1994-08-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2071 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, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 1994-08-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 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
2071 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
998 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
2.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KRST 080150
TORRST
MNC043-080230-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN
851 PM CDT SUN AUG 7 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ROCHESTER MN HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  930 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA
 
   ...FARIBAULT COUNTY
 
AT 845 PM A STORM PRODUCING TORNADOES WAS LOCATED NEAR DELEVAN OR 24
MILES NORTHEAST OF FAIRMONT. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT
15 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH BRUSH CREEK BY 910 PM AND WILL
CROSS INTERSTATE 90 JUST EAST OF BLUE EARTH BETWEEN 910 AND 920 PM.
 
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE IN THE
PATH OF THIS TORNADO^ MOVE TO A BASEMENT AND GET UNDER SOME STURDY
FURNITURE OR A WORKBENCH.  IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...GO TO A
SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON
CARS AND MOBILE HOMES.
 
 
 
&

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 7, 7:33 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXBlue Earth, Brown, Nicollet27 min
Aug 7, 8:10 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXBlue Earth, Faribault35 min
Aug 7, 8:28 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXSteele, Waseca32 min
Aug 7, 9:36 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXFaribault24 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.