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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 154, NWS Twin Cities, MN

August 13, 1995Dodge County, Mower County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 1995, 10:48 PM CDT for Dodge County, Mower County, Minnesota. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 13, 1995, 10:48 PM CDT (03:48 UTC)
Expired
Aug 13, 1995, 11:30 PM CDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Dodge County, MN, Mower County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 128 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 00:00Z on 1995-08-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1246 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 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 00:00Z on 1995-08-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 146 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1246 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
622 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
146 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
294 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.4
Supercell composite
8.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KRST 140350 RRA
SVRRST
MNC039-099-140430-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN
1048 PM CDT SUN AUG 13 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ROCHESTER MN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA
 
   ...SOUTHERN DODGE COUNTY...MOWER COUNTY
 
RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR AUSTIN MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THE STORM ARE AUSTIN AND HAYFIELD. THE STORM
SHOULD BE NEAR AUSTIN BY 1055 PM. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3
AM. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE
TORNADOS WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 13, 8:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXWabasha, Winona33 min
Aug 13, 9:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXFillmore, Mower, Olmsted31 min
Aug 13, 10:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXDodge, Fillmore, Mower, Olmsted29 min
Aug 13, 10:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXFreeborn41 min
Aug 13, 10:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXOlmsted34 min
Aug 13, 10:54 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXOlmsted36 min
Aug 13, 11:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXFillmore29 min
Aug 13, 11:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXOlmsted, Winona40 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.