Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 1995, 2:31 AM CDT for Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota. It was in force for 29 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 1995, 2:31 AM CDT (07:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 1995, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lac qui Parle County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 1960 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -240 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1349 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMSP 140732 RRA SVRMSP MNC073-140800- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 231 AM CDT FRI JUL 14 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA ...LAC QUI PARLE COUNTY AT 227 AM TWIN CITIES DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHING LAC QUI PARLE COUNTY OF WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF ORTONVILLE AND WAS MOVING TO THE EAST-NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 50 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE COMMUNITIES OF MADISON...ROSER...BELLINGHAM AND LOUISBURG ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 2:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stevens | 31 min |
| Jul 14, 3:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stevens | 26 min |
| Jul 14, 3:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Pope | 45 min |
| Jul 14, 3:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Todd | 35 min |
| Jul 14, 4:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Todd | 7 min |
| Jul 14, 4:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 28 min |
| Jul 14, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn | 35 min |
| Jul 14, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Steele | 39 min |
| Jul 14, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Nicollet | 45 min |
| Jul 14, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota | 35 min |
| Jul 14, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rice, Steele, Waseca | 47 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.