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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Twin Cities, MN

August 25, 1994Benton County, Mille Lacs County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Aug 25, 1994, 4:45 PM CDT for Benton County, Mille Lacs County, Minnesota. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 25, 1994, 4:45 PM CDT (21:45 UTC)
Expired: Aug 25, 1994, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Benton County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 109 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: 1334 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -154 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1348 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 134 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMSP 252148
TORSTC
MNC009-095-252215-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST CLOUD MN
ISSUED BY MINNEAPOLIS MN
445 PM CDT THU AUG 25 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  515 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
 
   ...EASTERN BENTON COUNTY
 
IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
 
   ...SOUTHERN MILLE LACS COUNTY
 
AT 445 PM A TORNADO WAS REPORTED ON THE GROUND NEAR FOLEY...WHICH IS IN
EASTERN BENTON COUNTY OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF ST CLOUD.
 
THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH TOWARD THE TOWNS OF
ESTES BROOK...LONG SIDING AND WOODWARD BROOK.
 
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 AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN A CENTRAL
ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET OR BATHROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.
USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR vCUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.
 
DRB
 
 
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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 25, 3:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Stearns, Todd	43 min
Aug 25, 3:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Pope	43 min
Aug 25, 3:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	McLeod, Renville, Sibley	51 min
Aug 25, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Morrison	46 min
Aug 25, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Stearns	59 min
Aug 25, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	McLeod, Sibley	47 min
Aug 25, 4:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Benton, Sherburne	57 min
Aug 25, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Anoka	44 min
Aug 25, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Isanti	40 min
Aug 25, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chisago	45 min
Aug 25, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Brown, Nicollet	35 min

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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.