Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1995, 8:49 AM CDT for Watonwan County, Minnesota. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 27, 1995, 8:49 AM CDT (13:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 1995, 9:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Watonwan County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 126 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 271351 RRA SVRMSP MNC165-271430- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 849 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 LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA ...WATONWAN COUNTY AT 850 AM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR DARFUR OR 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEW ULM. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. SOME CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ST. JAMES... BUTTERFIELD... AND LA SALLE. WHEN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...STAY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. PROTECT YOURSELF FROM DAMAGING WINDS OR HAIL BY KEEPING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LISTEN TO YOUR RADIO OR TELEVISION... BUT TURN OFF ALL OTHER ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES. DO NOT USE THE PHONE DURING PERIODS OF FREQUENT LIGHTNING. FRANZEN F
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 | Redwood | 38 min |
| Jul 27, 8:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown | 64 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
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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.