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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 25, 1995Freeborn County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1995, 11:30 AM CDT for Freeborn County, Minnesota. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 25, 1995, 11:30 AM CDT (16:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 25, 1995, 12:15 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Whole counties

County Freeborn County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 132 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 1995-06-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 231 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 1995-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 7 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
231 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-68 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
940 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
41 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 KMSP 251630
SVRMSP
MNC047-251715-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
1130 AM CDT SUN JUN 25 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 PM
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA
 
   ...WESTERN FREEBORN COUNTY
 
AT 1128 DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM FROM JUST EAST OF
ALBERT LEA TO NEAR EMMON. THE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH
AND WILL MOVE THROUGH ALBERT LEA...EMMONS...AND CONGER BY 1145 AM.
LARGE HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM
 
 
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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 12:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXFaribault, Freeborn39 min
Jun 25, 12:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBlue Earth, Faribault, Martin37 min
Jun 25, 5:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXWashington39 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.