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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Twin Cities, MN

July 3, 1995Kandiyohi County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1995, 4:56 PM CDT for Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 3, 1995, 4:56 PM CDT (21:56 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 1995, 5:30 PM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Whole counties

County Kandiyohi County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:56 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 115 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 1995-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 164 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1207 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
164 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
157 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 
WUUS1 KMSP 032157 RRA
SVRMSP
MNC067-032230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
456 PM CDT MON JUL 3 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
 
   ...NORTHEAST KANDIYOHI COUNTY
 
AT 450 PM..DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE STRONG THUNDERSTORM
DEVELOPMENT OVER NORTHEAST KANDIYOHI COUNTY NEAR THE GREEN LAKE AREA OR
20 MILES NORTHEAST OF WILLMAR.
 
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 20 MPH. SOME CITIES IN
THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE NEW LONDON AND REGAL.
 
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.
JPR

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 4:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXMeeker, Stearns59 min
Jul 3, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXMorrison47 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.