Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1995, 7:50 PM CDT for Redwood County, Minnesota. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 1995, 7:50 PM CDT (00:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1995, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Redwood County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:52 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 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2394 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KMSP 230050 RRA SVRMSP MNC127-230130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 750 PM CDT THU JUN 22 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA ...REDWOOD COUNTY AT 750 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 15 MILES SOUTH OF REDWOOD FALLS...BETWEEN WANDA AND LAMBERTON. THE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING NORTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE ROWENA AND REDWOOD FALLS. 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.
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, 3 hours 40 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.
TDKLocal storm report, Jun 22, 4:11 PM CDT, 3 hours 39 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Ramsey | 43 min |
| Jun 23, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Ramsey, Washington | 45 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.