Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 137, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 1995, 1:57 PM CDT for Lac qui Parle County, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. It was in force for 33 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 13, 1995, 1:57 PM CDT (18:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 1995, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lac qui Parle County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:57 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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 1795 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -149 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 514 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMSP 131858 RRA SVRMSP MNC073-173-131930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 157 PM CDT SUN AUG 13 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA ...LAC QUI PARLE COUNTY...YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY AT 155 PM...60 MPH WINDS WERE REPORTED IN CANBY...OR 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MONTEVIDEO. THE STORM IS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF BOYD...CLARKSFIELD...DAWSON. TAKE SHELTER NOW. SEVERE 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. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Ramsey | 27 min |
| Aug 13, 2:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood | 42 min |
| Aug 13, 2:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Swift | 32 min |
| Aug 13, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Renville | 40 min |
| Aug 13, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker | 21 min |
| Aug 13, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Hennepin | 26 min |
| Aug 13, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Isanti | 37 min |
| Aug 13, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin, Ramsey | 37 min |
| Aug 13, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago, Washington | 27 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.