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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

July 19, 1995Cottonwood County, Murray County, Minnesota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 1995, 4:30 PM CDT for Cottonwood County, Murray County, Minnesota. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 19, 1995, 4:30 PM CDT (21:30 UTC)
Expired
Jul 19, 1995, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties

Counties Cottonwood County, MN, Murray County, MN

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 175 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 12:00Z on 1995-07-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1995-07-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 90 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1514 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
172 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS1 KFSD 192131
SVRFSD
MNC033-101-192200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
430 PM CDT WED JUL 19 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA
 
   ...NORTHERN COTTONWOOD COUNTY...NORTHEASTERN MURRAY COUNTY
 
THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE COMMUNITES OF CURRIE...DOVRAY...STORDEN...AND
WESTBROOK.
 
AT 427 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM NEAR LAKE SHETEK STATE PARK IN MURRAY COUNTY. THIS STORM
WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD MOVE INTO COTTONWOOD
COUNTY BY 445 PM CDT.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 19, 2:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDPipestone35 min
Jul 19, 3:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDNobles26 min
Jul 19, 5:10 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDJackson35 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.