Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 128, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 11, 1995, 6:33 AM CDT for Benton County, Sherburne County, Minnesota. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 11, 1995, 6:33 AM CDT (11:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 1995, 7:08 AM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Benton County, MN, Sherburne County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 00:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 1599 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 943 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMSP 111134 RRA SVRMSP MNC009-093-141-171-111230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 633 AM CDT FRI AUG 11 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA ...BENTON COUNTY...MEEKER COUNTY...SHERBURNE COUNTY ...WRIGHT COUNTY AT 635 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF ST CLOUD...NEAR HOLDINGFORD...TO JUST WEST OF ST CLOUD...TO LITCHFIELD...OR 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ST CLOUD. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 50 MPH AND WILL MOVE THROUGH ST CLOUD...FOLEY...BECKER...LITCHFIELD...AND ANNANDALE. WINDS IN EXCESS OF 75 MPH...MAKE THIS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM. GET READY FOR DAMAGING WINDS. HOUSES COULD BE BADLY DAMAGED... SO HEAD FOR THE BASEMENT. MOBILE HOMES COULD BE OVERTURNED. PEOPLE IN MOBILE HOMES SHOULD FLEE TO A STORM SHELTER. CARSTENS
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, Aug 11, 6:15 AM CDT, 18 minutes before
MNZ027-028-029-030-031-111400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 615 AM CDT FRI AUG 11 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CANCELLED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 921 FOR THE FOLLOWING WESTCENTRAL MINNESOTA COUNTIES ...WILKIN...OTTERTAIL...GRANT...DOUGLAS...BIGSTONE AND STEVENS. BT!
Special weather statement, Aug 11, 6:19 AM CDT, 14 minutes before
MNZ027-028-029-030-031-111400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 615 AM CDT FRI AUG 11 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CANCELLED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 921 FOR THE FOLLOWING WESTCENTRAL MINNESOTA COUNTIES ...WILKIN...OTTERTAIL...GRANT...DOUGLAS...BIGSTONE AND STEVENS. BT!
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 4:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle | 33 min |
| Aug 11, 4:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stevens, Swift | 41 min |
| Aug 11, 5:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope | 42 min |
| Aug 11, 5:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Swift | 31 min |
| Aug 11, 5:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Stearns | 45 min |
| Aug 11, 6:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker, Stearns | 44 min |
| Aug 11, 6:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker, Wright | 57 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.