Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1995, 5:04 PM CDT for Benton County, Sherburne County, Stearns County, Minnesota. It was in force for 26 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 1995, 5:04 PM CDT (22:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1995, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Benton County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Stearns County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:08 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 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 474 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -143 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1527 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KMSP 222204 RRA SVRMSP MNC009-141-145-222230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 504 PM CDT THU JUN 22 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 CENTRAL MINNESOTA ...EASTERN BENTON COUNTY...EASTERN SHERBURNE COUNTY ...WESTERN STEARNS COUNTY AT 505 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED AT THE ST CLOUD AIRPORT. A WIN GUST TO 62 MILES AN HOUR WAS RECORDED. THIS STORM IS MOVING NORTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE THROUGH ST CLOUD AND SAUK RAPIDS BY 530 PM. 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. 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
Local storm report, Jun 22, 4:10 PM CDT, 54 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL MN
410 PM CDT THU JUN 22 1995
TIME(CDT) ...LOCATION OF EVENT... STATE ...EVENTS/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
300 PM NORTH MANKATO MN DIME SIZE HAIL AND 50 MPH
NICOLLET WIND. ONE INCH RAIN IN 20
MINUTES. REPORTED BY
KEYC-TV.
TDKLocal storm report, Jun 22, 4:11 PM CDT, 53 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL MN
410 PM CDT THU JUN 22 1995
TIME(CDT) ...LOCATION OF EVENT... STATE ...EVENTS/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
300 PM NORTH MANKATO MN DIME SIZE HAIL AND 50 MPH
NICOLLET WIND. ONE INCH RAIN IN 20
MINUTES. REPORTED BY
KEYC-TV.
TDK<The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 2:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Martin | 45 min |
| Jun 22, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Fillmore | 30 min |
| Jun 22, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dodge, Olmsted | 32 min |
| Jun 22, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Fillmore | 29 min |
| Jun 22, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton | 28 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.