Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 175, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 6, 1995, 3:35 AM CDT for Blue Earth County, Minnesota. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 6, 1995, 3:35 AM CDT (08:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 1995, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Blue Earth County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 294 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1265 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 1:52 AM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
MNZ054-056>058-064-065-071>073-080-081-089-090-060800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 152 AM CDT WED SEP 6 1995 THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS DIMINISHED ACROSS SOUTHWEST AND PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA. HENCE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM HAS BEEN CANCELLED. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE AREA WILL CONTINUE TO ADVANCE EASTWARD INTO SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA THE REST OF THE NIGHT. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM FOR THAT AREA. MBK
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 1:53 AM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
MNZ054-056>058-064-065-071>073-080-081-089-090-060800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 152 AM CDT WED SEP 6 1995 THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS DIMINISHED ACROSS SOUTHWEST AND PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA. HENCE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM HAS BEEN CANCELLED. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE AREA WILL CONTINUE TO ADVANCE EASTWARD INTO SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEABST MINNESOTA THE REST OF THE NIGHT. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM FOR THAT AREA. MBK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 11:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 42 min |
| Sep 6, 12:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood | 51 min |
| Sep 6, 1:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown | 64 min |
| Sep 6, 3:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth | 48 min |
| Sep 6, 4:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Rice, Steele | 24 min |
| Sep 6, 4:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Steele | 44 min |
| Sep 6, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dodge | 32 min |
| Sep 6, 5:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dodge | 53 min |
| Sep 6, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Mower | 36 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.