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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 22, 1995Benton County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1995, 5:32 PM CDT for Benton County, Minnesota. It was in force for 28 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 22, 1995, 5:32 PM CDT (22:32 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 1995, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Whole counties

County Benton County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:31 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 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 99 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 222232 RRA
SVRMSP
MNC009-222300-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
532 PM CDT THU JUN 22 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
 
   ...BENTON COUNTY
 
AT 530 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES EAST OF ST
CLOUD...OR JUST EAST OF SAUK RAPIDS. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING TO THE
EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE
DUELM...PARENT AND FOLEY. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MAY BRUSH THE EASTERN
PORTION OF ST CLOUD AND SAUK RAPIDS.
 
 
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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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, 5:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBenton, Sherburne, Stearns26 min
Jun 22, 5:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXFillmore29 min

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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.