Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 1995, 6:34 PM CDT for Rock County, Minnesota. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 1995, 6:34 PM CDT (23:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 1995, 7:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rock County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -244 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 695 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFSD 142336 RRA SVRFSD MNC133-150020- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 634 PM CDT FRI JUL 14 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 720 PM CDT (620 PM MDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY... IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA ...ROCK COUNTY MN AT 630 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED BY SIOUX FALLS DOPPLER RADAR 20 MILES EAST OF SIOUX FALLS OR 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BEAVER CREEK MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF... LUVERNE BY 645 PM CDT HARDWICK BY 710 PM CDT KENNETH BY 715 PM CDT WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. RUBY
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
Local storm report, Jul 14, 4:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD
400 PM CDT FRI JUL 14 1995
STORM DATA FOR THU JUL 13 1995
TIME COUNTY...LOCATION CHARACTER OF STORM...DAMAGE
1100 PM CDT HUGHES CO...BLUNT TREE DAMAGE...THREE INCH
BRANCHES BROKEN
BETWEEN 1130 PM HAND CO...ST. LAWRENCE LARGE TREES UPROOTED...
AND MIDNIGHT 12 N GARAGE BLOWN DOWN
ABOUT 10 PM CDT JONES CO...OKATON SMALL BRANCHES DOWN...
HAIL DAMAGE TO CROPS.
SPRINGERLocal storm report, Jul 14, 4:05 PM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD
400 PM CDT FRI JUL 14 1995
STORM DATA FOR THU JUL 13 1995
TIME COUNTY...LOCATION CHARACTER OF STORM...DAMAGE
1100 PM CDT HUGHES CO...BLUNT TREE DAMAGE...THREE INCH
BRANCHES BROKEN
BETWEEN 1130 PM HAND CO...ST. LAWRENCE LARGE TREES UPROOTED...
AND MIDNIGHT 12 N GARAGE BLOWN DOWN
ABOUT 10 PM CDT JONES CO...OKATON SMALL BRANCHES DOWN...
HAIL DAMAGE TO CROPS.
SPRINGERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Murray | 47 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.