Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 181, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 6, 1995, 6:54 PM CDT for Mower County, Minnesota. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 6, 1995, 6:54 PM CDT (23:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 1995, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mower County, MN
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 1389 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 650 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 225 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 283 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KRST 062355 RRA SVRRST MNC099-070030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN 654 PM CDT WED SEP 6 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ROCHESTER MN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA ...MOWER COUNTY AT 650 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF AUSTIN. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND SHOULD REACH BROWNSDALE AND SARGEANT BY 705 PM AND GRAND MEADOW AND RACINE BY 720 PM. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTILL 12 MIDNIGHT CDT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND...zLARGE 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. TEAL &
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, Sep 6, 6:35 PM CDT, 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
635 PM CDT WED SEP 6 1995
TIME(CDT) ...LOCATION OF EVENT... STATE ...EVENTS/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
435 PM 3 E MORRISTOWN MN TORNADO
09/06/95 RICE COUNTY HIT TWO FARMSTEADS...
DAMAGING AT LEAST ONE
HOUSE AND ONE BARN.
UNKNOWN IF THERE ARE
ANY INJURIES. TORNADO
WAS DESCRIBED BY MANY
AS HUGE. REPORTS
INDICATED IT DISSIPATED
AROUND 5 PM.
TDKLocal storm report, Sep 6, 6:36 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
635 PM CDT WED SEP 6 1995
TIME(CDT) ...LOCATION OF EVENT... STATE ...EVENTS/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
435 PM 3 E MORRISTOWN MN TORNADO
09/06/95 RICE COUNTY HIT TWO FARMSTEADS...
DAMAGING AT LEAST ONE
HOUSE AND ONE BARN.
UNKNOWN IF THERE ARE
ANY INJURIES. TORNADO
WAS DESCRIBED BY MANY
AS HUGE. REPORTS
INDICATED IT DISSIPATED
AROUND 5 PM.
TDKLocal storm report, Sep 6, 6:41 PM CDT, 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
638 PM CDT WED SEP 6 1995
TIME(CDT) .....LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
0628 PM 20 NE EAU CLAIRE WI TORNADO
09/06/95 CHIPPEWA TORNADO 1 MILE SOUTH OF
STANLEY NEAR COUNTY ROADS G
KRCSpecial weather statement, Sep 6, 6:45 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
MNZALL-070045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 645 PM CDT WED SEP 6 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED FOR SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA HAS BEEN REPLACED WITH A TORNADO WATCH. THE TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA COUNTIES OF FILLMORE...HOUSTON...MOWER...OLMSTED AND WINONA...GENERALLY SOUTH AND EAST OF LINE FROM AUSTIN TO WINONA. THE REMAINDER OF SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA IS NO LONGER COVERED BY ANY WEATHER WATCHES.
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 6:46 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
MNZALL-070045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 645 PM CDT WED SEP 6 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED FOR SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA HAS BEEN REPLACED WITH A TORNADO WATCH. THE TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA COUNTIES OF FILLMORE...HOUSTON...MOWER...OLMSTED AND WINOFNA...GENERALLY SOUTH AND EAST OF LINE FROM AUSTIN TO WINONA. THE REMAINDER OF SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA IS NO LONGER COVERED BY ANY WEATHER WATCHES.
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, 3:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth | 25 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 |
Nearby
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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.