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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

July 14, 1995Cottonwood County, Minnesota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 1995, 7:53 PM CDT for Cottonwood County, Minnesota. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 14, 1995, 7:53 PM CDT (00:53 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 1995, 8:25 PM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Cottonwood County, MN

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 157 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 1995-07-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2673 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 1995-07-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 19 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2673 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1302 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.3
Supercell composite
9.7

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFSD 150054 RRA
SVRFSD
MNC033-150125-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
753 PM CDT FRI JUL 14 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 825 PM CDT (725 PM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...

IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA

   ...COTTONWOOD MN
 
AT 751 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED BY SIOUX FALLS
DOPPLER RADAR 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF WORTHINGTON  OR 6 MILES SOUTH OF
STORDEN MOVING NORTHEAST AT 23 MPH.

THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF...
JEFFERS                  BY 812 PM CDT
 
STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND
SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT FOR PARTS
OF SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA.

MED

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, 3 hours 53 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.

SPRINGER
Local storm report, Jul 14, 4:05 PM CDT, 3 hours 48 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.

SPRINGER

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.