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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 24, 1995Houston County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1995, 3:15 PM CDT for Houston County, Minnesota. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 24, 1995, 3:15 PM CDT (20:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 1995, 3:45 PM CDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Whole counties

County Houston County, MN

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 242 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, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 1995-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 881 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, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 1995-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 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
881 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-90 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1189 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
15 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 
TTAA00 KRST 242017 RRA
SVRRST
MNC055-242045-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN
315 PM CDT SAT JUN 24 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ROCHESTER MN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  345 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA
 
   ...WESTERN HOUSTON COUNTY
 
AT 315PM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NW OF
CALEDONIA NEAR SHELDON SLOWLY MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15MPH. THIS
STORM SHOULD EFFECT SHELDON BY 320PM AND HOUSTON BY 340PM.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...
DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  FOR YOUR PROTECTION
MOVE TO AN INTE<RIOR ROOM.  PEOPLE IN MOBILE HOMES SHOULD GO
TO A STORM SHELTER.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 24, 4:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXHouston27 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.