Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 1995, 2:05 AM CDT for Traverse County, Minnesota. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 1995, 2:05 AM CDT (07:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 1995, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County Traverse County, MN
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 1960 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -240 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1349 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KFAR 140705 RRA
SVRFAR
MNC155-140800-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FARGO ND
205 AM CDT FRI JUL 14 1995
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE WEST CENTRAL PART OF MINNESOTA
TRAVERSE
AT 205 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 45 MILES NORTH OF
WATERTOWN SOUTH DAKOTA...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.
ARMSTRONGWhat 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 14, 1:25 AM CDT, 40 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FARGO ND 125 AM CDT FRI JUL 14 1995 NDZ007-008-016-026>030-038-039-049-052-053-MNZ001>004- 007>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-039-040-140730- EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF MINNESOTA .NOW... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN RED RIVER VALLEY... AT 125 AM CDT AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 30 MILES EAST OF ABERDEEN SOUTH DAKOTA MOVING EAST AT 35 TO 40 MILES AN HOUR. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS PRODUCING STRONG WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. THIS THUNDERSTORM SHOULD CROSS INTO WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA 230 PM...NEAR BROWNS VALLEY IN TRAVERSE COUNTY. OTHER WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER SOUTHEAST AND && CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 TO 35 MILES AN HOUR. ^ PERSONS NEAR ANY OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. ANDERSEN
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 1:41 AM CDT, 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FARGO ND 125 AM CDT FRI JUL 14 1995 NDZ007-008-016-026>030-038-039-049-052-053-MNZ001>004- 007>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-039-040-140730- EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF MINNESOTA .NOW... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN RED RIVER VALLEY... AT 125 AM CDT AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 30 MILES EAST OF ABERDEEN SOUTH DAKOTA MOVING EAST AT 35 TO 40 MILES AN HOUR. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS PRODUCING STRONG WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. THIS THUNDERSTORM SHOULD CROSS INTO WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA 230 PM...NEAR BROWNS VALLEY IN TRAVERSE COUNTY. OTHER WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER SOUTHEAST AND && CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 TO 35 MILES AN HOUR. ^ PERSONS NEAR ANY OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. ANDERSEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 3:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grant | 31 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.