Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this tornado warning at Aug 22, 1995, 6:03 PM CDT for Saint Louis County, Minnesota. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 22, 1995, 6:03 PM CDT (23:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 1995, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Saint Louis County, MN
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1698 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KINL 222303 TORINL MNC137-222330- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INTERNATIONAL FALLS MN 603 PM CDT TUE AUG 22 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INTERNATIONAL FALLS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST MINNESOTA ...NORTHERN ST. LOUIS COUNTY AT 600 PM CDT...DULUTH RADAR INDICATED A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM OVER LAKE KABETOGAMA. THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. PERSONS IN CRANE LAKE AND THE WESTERN PART OF BOUNDARY WATERS CANOE AREA ARE IN THE DIRECT PATH OF THIS TORNADO THROUGH 630 PM CDT. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. NNNN
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 22, 1:15 PM CDT, 4 hours 48 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER INTERNATIONAL FALLS MN
115 PM CDT TUE AUG 22 1995
TIME(CDT) ...LOCATION OF EVENT... STATE ...EVENTS/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1042 AM BAUDETTE MN ASOS REPORTED 56 KT
LAKE OF THE WOODS THUNDERSTORM WINDS.
1045 AM BAUDETTE MN LAW ENFORCEMENT
LAKE OF THE WOODS REPORTED THAT WIND
TORE THE ROOF OFF
OF A LOCAL BUSINESS.
MWDLocal storm report, Aug 22, 1:17 PM CDT, 4 hours 46 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER INTERNATIONAL FALLS MN
115 PM CDT TUE AUG 22 1995
TIME(CDT) ...LOCATION OF EVENT... STATE ...EVENTS/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1042 AM BAUDETTE MN ASOS REPORTED 56 KT
LAKE OF THE WOODS THUNDERSTORM WINDS.
1045 AM BAUDETTE MN LAW ENFORCEMENT
LAKE OF THE WOODS REPORTED THAT WIND
TORE THE ROOF OFF
OF A LOCAL BUSINESS.
MWDLocal storm report, Aug 22, 2:18 PM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER INTERNATIONAL FALLS MN
220 PM CDT TUE AUG 22 1995
TIME(CDT) ...LOCATION OF EVENT... STATE ...EVENTS/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1050 AM BAUDETTE MN BAUDETTE AIRPORT
LAKE OF THE WOODS PERSONNEL REPORTED
LARGE TREES SNAPPED
OFF...AND SEAPLANE
BLOWN OUT OF THE
WATER.
MWDLocal storm report, Aug 22, 2:20 PM CDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER INTERNATIONAL FALLS MN
220 PM CDT TUE AUG 22 1995
TIME(CDT) ...LOCATION OF EVENT... STATE ...EVENTS/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1050 AM BAUDETTE MN BAUDETTE AIRPORT
LAKE OF THE WOODS PERSONNEL REPORTED
LARGE TREES SNAPPED
OFF...AND SEAPLANE
BLOWN OUT OF THE
WATER.
MWDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Saint Louis | 47 min |
| Aug 22, 6:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Saint Louis | 41 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.