Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 100, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1995, 8:26 AM CDT for Redwood County, Minnesota. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 27, 1995, 8:26 AM CDT (13:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 1995, 9:04 AM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Redwood County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 467 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -305 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1285 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 239 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMSP 271328 RRA SVRMSP MNC015-127-271430- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 826 AM CDT THU JUL 27 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA ...BROWN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA ...EASTERN REDWOOD COUNTY AT 825 AM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED JUST EAST OF WALNUT GROVE OR 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF REDWOOD FALLS. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL EFFECT THE CITIES OF MORGAN... SPRINGFIELD AND SLEEPY EYE. SE`VERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL... DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM. PEOPLE IN MOBILE HOMES SHOULD GO TO A STORM SHELTER. HOWIESON
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
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 5:19 AM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
MNZ004>096-271600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...MINNESOTA SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN 530 AM CDT THU JUL 27 1995 ...SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE ACROSS MUCH OF MINNESOTA TODAY... THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER INDICTATES THAT THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH OF MINNESOTA TODAY. A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE STATE TODAY. THE COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO AN UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE ACROSS MINNESOTA. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE MAINLY IN WESTERN MINNESOTA THIS MORNING AS STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM THE DAKOTAS MOVE INTO THE EXTREME WEST BY 6 AM THIS MORNING. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY WEAKEN AS THEY MOVE EAST ACROSS THE REST OF MINNESOTA THIS MORNING. AS THE COLD FRONT MOVES EASTWARD TODAY IT WILL LIKELY DEVELOP MORE THUNDERSTORMS IN THE CENTRAL PART OF THE STATE. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE EASTWARD ACROSS THE STATE AND SOME WILL LIKELY BECOME SEVERE WITH TORNADIC ACTIVITY ALSO POSSIBLE. THE MOST LIKELY AREAS FOR SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON WILL BE IN EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD CHECK PREPAREDNESS REQUIREMENTS AND ALL PERSONS IN ...LOCATIXON... SHOULD CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO THE LATEST FORECASTS AND STATEMENTS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. TIPTON/RICHARDSON
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 5:30 AM CDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before
MNZ004>096-271600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...MINNESOTA SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN 530 AM CDT THU JUL 27 1995 ...SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE ACROSS MUCH OF MINNESOTA TODAY... THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER INDICTATES THAT THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH OF MINNESOTA TODAY. A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE STATE TODAY. THE COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO AN UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE ACROSS MINNESOTA. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE MAINLY IN WESTERN MINNESOTA THIS MORNING AS STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM THE DAKOTAS MOVE INTO THE EXTREME WEST BY 6 AM THIS MORNING. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY WEAKEN AS THEY MOVE EAST ACROSS THE REST OF MINNESOTA THIS MORNING. AS THE COLD FRONT MOVES EASTWARD TODAY IT WILL LIKELY DEVELOP MORE THUNDERSTORMS IN THE CENTRAL PART OF THE STATE. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE EASTWARD ACROSS THE STATE AND SOME WILL LIKELY BECOME SEVERE WITH TORNADIC ACTIVITY ALSO POSSIBLE. THE MOST LIKELY AREAS FOR SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON WILL BE IN EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD CHECK PREPAREDNESS REQUIREMENTS AND ALL PERSONS IN ...LOCATION... SHOULD CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO THE LATEST FORECASTS AND STATEMENTS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. TIPTON/RICHARDSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 7:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood | 50 min |
| Jul 27, 8:05 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Redwood | 25 min |
| Jul 27, 8:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown | 64 min |
| Jul 27, 8:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Watonwan | 41 min |
| Jul 27, 9:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Nicollet | 62 min |
| Jul 27, 9:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Watonwan | 50 min |
| Jul 27, 9:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault | 46 min |
| Jul 27, 10:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault | 47 min |
| Jul 27, 10:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn, Steele, Waseca | 58 min |
| Jul 27, 11:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Mower | 60 min |
| Jul 27, 11:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dodge | 39 min |
| Jul 27, 11:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 31 min |
| Jul 27, 12:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Fillmore | 51 min |
| Jul 27, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Wabasha, Winona | 20 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.