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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 170, NWS Twin Cities, MN

August 28, 1995Fillmore County, Houston County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 1995, 4:04 PM CDT for Fillmore County, Houston County, Minnesota. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 28, 1995, 4:04 PM CDT (21:04 UTC)
Expired
Aug 28, 1995, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Fillmore County, MN, Houston County, MN

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 195 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 1995-08-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1431 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 1995-08-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 37 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
1431 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-242 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1252 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 28, 6:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXChippewa, Yellow Medicine30 min
Aug 28, 6:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXRedwood, Renville53 min
Aug 28, 7:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXMcLeod, Sibley42 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.