Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 1995, 6:40 AM CDT for Lake County, Minnesota. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 12, 1995, 6:40 AM CDT (11:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 1995, 7:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lake County, MN
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 932 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1571 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Jul 12, 2:57 AM CDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before
SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INTERNATIONAL FALLS MN 300 AM CDT WED JUL 12 1995 MNZ005-006-121100- NORTHWEST MINNESOTA INCLUDING ROSEAU...WARROAD...AND BAUDETTE... .NOW... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION BY 6 AM. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BE STRONG. SOUTHEAST WINDS AT 5 TO 10 MPH FOR BOTH LAND AND LAKE AS READINGS HOLD IN THE LOWER 70S. MNZ010-011-121400 NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA INCLUDING INTERNATIONAL FALLS AND ELY... .NOW... CLOUDS WILL BE ON THE INCREASE THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING BY 9AM. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BE STRONG. TEMPERATURES RISING TO AROUND 80 DEGREES BY MID MORNING WITH SOUTHEAST WINDpS AT 5 TO 10 MPH OVER LAND AND LAKE. SCW
Special weather statement, Jul 12, 3:00 AM CDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before
SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INTERNATIONAL FALLS MN 300 AM CDT WED JUL 12 1995 MNZ005-006-121100- NORTHWEST MINNESOTA INCLUDING ROSEAU...WARROAD...AND BAUDETTE... .NOW... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION BY 6 AM. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BE STRONG. SOUTHEAST WINDS AT 5 TO 10 MPH FOR BOTH LAND AND LAKE AS READINGS HOLD IN THE LOWER 70S. MNZ010-011-121400 NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA INCLUDING INTERNATIONAL FALLS AND ELY... .NOW... CLOUDS WILL BE ON THE INCREASE THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING BY 9AM. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BE STRONG. TEMPERATURES RISING TO AROUND 80 DEGREES BY MID MORNING WITH SOUTHEAST WINDS AT 5 TO 10 MPH OVER LAND AND LAKE. SCW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 5:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cass, Crow Wing, Itasca | 57 min |
| Jul 12, 5:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Aitkin | 58 min |
| Jul 12, 6:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Carlton, Saint Louis | 62 min |
| Jul 12, 6:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Pine | 62 min |
| Jul 12, 7:09 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Lake, Saint Louis | 36 min |
| Jul 12, 6:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Douglas | 54 min |
| Jul 12, 9:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Price | 15 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.