Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 146, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 1995, 6:45 PM CDT for Barron County, Dunn County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 13, 1995, 6:45 PM CDT (23:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 1995, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barron County, WI, Dunn County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMSP 132346 RRA SVRMSP WIC005-033-140030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 645 PM CDT SUN AUG 13 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN ...BARRON COUNTY...DUNN COUNTY AT 623 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN INTENSE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM MCKINLEY TO CLEAR LAKE TO GLENWOOD CITY. THIS LINE OF OF STORMS WAS 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RICE LAKE AND WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE BARRON...RICE LAKE... WHEELER AND MENONONIE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO PRODUCE DAMAGINWINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. THE THUNDERSTORMS ALSO HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINS WITH FLOODING OF URBAN AND LOW LYING AREAS. 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.
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, 2 hours 4 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.
MJMLocal storm report, Aug 13, 5:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 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
MMFLocal storm report, Aug 13, 5:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 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
MMFSpecial weather statement, Aug 13, 6:25 PM CDT, 20 minutes before
MNZ004>096-140300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 625 PM CDT SUN AUG 13 1995 THE NATIONAL SEVERE SERVICE HAS CLEARED A PORTION OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 936. THE AREA LOCATED WEST OF A LINE FROM NEAR DULTUH...TO WEST OF MINNEAPOLIS ...AND FAIRMONT IS CLEARED FROM THE WATCH. THE COUNTIES REMAINING IN THE WATCH ARE CARLTON...PINE...KANABEC... ISANTI...CHISAGO...ANOKA...WASHINGTON...HENNEPIN...RAMSEY...CARVER... SCOTT...DAKOTA...LE SUEUR...BLUE EARTH...FARIBAULT...RICE....GOODHUE... WABASHA...WINONA....OLMSTED...DODGE...STEELE...WASECA...BLUE EARTH WASECA...FREEBORN...MOWER...FILLMORE AND HOUSTON. THE TWIN CITIES METRO AREAS REMAINS IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP OVER WESTERN MINNESOTA LATER THIS EVENING AND COULD BECOME SEVERE. PERSONS IN WESTERN MINNESOTA SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE WEATHER AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. DWE
Special weather statement, Aug 13, 6:28 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
MNZ004>096-140300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 625 PM CDT SUN AUG 13 1995 THE NATIONAL SEVERE SERVICE HAS CLEARED A PORTION OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 936. THE AREA LOCATED WEST OF A LINE FROM NEAR DULTUH...TO WEST OF MINNEAPOLIS ...AND FAIRMONT IS CLEARED FROM THE WATCH. THE COUNTIES REMAINING IN THE WATCH ARE CARLTON...PINE...KANABEC... ISANTI...CHISAGO...ANOKA...WASHINGTON...HENNEPIN...RAMSEY...CARVER... SCOTT...DAKOTA...LE SUEUR...BLUE EARTH...FARIBAULT...RICE....GOODHUE... WABASHA...WINONA....OLMSTED...DODGE...STEELE...WASECA...BLUE EARTH WASECA...FREEBORN...MOWER...FILLMORE AND HOUSTON. THE TWIN CITIES METRO AREAS REMAINS IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP OVER WESTERN MINNESOTA LATER THIS EVENING AND COULD BECOME SEVERE. PERSONS IN WESTERN MINNESOTA SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE WEATHER AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS FROM THLE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. DWE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 8:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Saint Croix | 46 min |
| Aug 12, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn | 43 min |
| Aug 12, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pierce | 47 min |
| Aug 13, 12:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Dunn, Pepin, Pierce | 3 hr |
| Aug 13, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Polk, Saint Croix | 46 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 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.