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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 141, NWS Twin Cities, MN

August 13, 1995Anoka County, Hennepin County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 1995, 5:04 PM CDT for Anoka County, Hennepin County, Minnesota. It was in force for 26 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 13, 1995, 5:04 PM CDT (22:04 UTC)
Expired: Aug 13, 1995, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Anoka County, MN, Hennepin County, MN

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 37 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 194 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -328 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1129 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMSP 132205 RRA
SVRMSP
MNC003-053-132230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
504 PM CDT SUN AUG 13 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
 
   ...ANOKA COUNTY...HENNEPIN COUNTY
 
AT 500 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM
ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF MINNEAPOLIS NEAR ANOKA TO PLYMOUTH AND
MOUND.
 
THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH AND SHOULD AFFECT THE
COMMUNITIES OF MINNEAPOLIS...COON RAPIDS...AND EDINA THROUGH 530 PM.
WINDS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
 
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.
 N
MJM/DWE

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

Local storm report, Aug 13, 4:41 PM CDT, 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
441 PM CDT SUN AUG 13 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....LOCATION.....      STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...

1535       NEAR SPICER               MN   TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
           10 NNE OF WILLMAR
           KANDIYOHI CO.

 MJM

Local storm report, Aug 13, 5:00 PM CDT, 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
500 PM CDT SUN AUG 13 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....LOCATION.....      STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...

1638       BUFFALO                   MN   FEW TREES BLOWN OVER SIZE
           WRIGHT CO.                     UNKNOWN

MMF

Local storm report, Aug 13, 5:01 PM CDT, 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
500 PM CDT SUN AUG 13 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....LOCATION.....      STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...

1638       BUFFALO           <        MN   FEW TREES BLOWN OVER SIZE
           WRIGHT CO.                     UNKNOWN

MMF

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, 1:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine	33 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, 5:38 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, 1995 Every 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.