Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 1995, 4:32 AM CDT for Todd County, Minnesota. It was in force for 7 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 1995, 4:32 AM CDT (09:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 1995, 4:39 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Todd County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 171 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 2817 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2282 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 15.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMSP 140933 RRA SVRMSP MNC097-153-141000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 432 AM CDT FRI JUL 14 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA ...NORTHWESTERN MORRISON COUNTY...NORTHEASTERN TODD COUNTY AT 430 AM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING FROM EASTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BRAINRD NEAR BROWERVILLE. LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL REPORTED A BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHDOWN IN THE LONG PRAIRIES ABOUT 410 AM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF STRONG GUSTY WINDS. COMMUNITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE FOLBROOK...LINCOLN...MOTLEY AND THE CAMP RIPLEY AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL... DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTIOhN 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, 2:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle | 29 min |
| 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 | 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.