Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 1995, 5:00 PM CDT for Blue Earth County, Nicollet County, Minnesota. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 1995, 5:00 PM CDT (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 1995, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Blue Earth County, MN, Nicollet County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 2577 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -229 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1639 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMSP 142201 RRA SVRMSP MNC013-103-142245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 500 PM CDT FRI JUL 14 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA ...NORTHERN BLUE EARTH COUNTY...SOUTHERN NICOLLET COUNTY AT 455 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 8 MILES WEST OF MANKATO MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM NORTH MANKATO...MANKATO...KERNS... AND EAGLE LAKE. THE STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL... AND TORRENTIAL RAINS. MJM
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 | 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, 5:40 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
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.