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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 58, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

July 25, 1995Rock County, Minnesota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1995, 4:00 PM CDT for Rock County, Minnesota. It was in force for 50 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jul 25, 1995, 4:00 PM CDT (21:00 UTC)
Expired
Jul 25, 1995, 4:50 PM CDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Rock County, MN

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 25, 4:15 PM CDTTornado F0Luverne, MNLaw enforcement reported a brief tornado touchdown near Interstate 90 south of Luverne.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 1995-07-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 5 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, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 1995-07-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -22 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-209 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
854 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 25, 2:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMinnehaha35 min
Jul 25, 3:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMinnehaha48 min
Jul 25, 5:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDOsceola47 min
Jul 25, 5:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLyon, Sioux33 min
Jul 25, 6:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDClay43 min
Jul 25, 4:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMurray, Nobles49 min
Jul 25, 5:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDCottonwood, Jackson48 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.