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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 22, 1995Benton County, Sherburne County, Stearns County, Minnesota

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 1995-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 474 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 1995-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -50 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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
 
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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.

TDK
Local 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 2:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXMartin45 min
Jun 22, 4:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXFillmore30 min
Jun 22, 4:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXDodge, Olmsted32 min
Jun 22, 5:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXFillmore29 min
Jun 22, 5:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBenton28 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.