Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 1995, 10:58 PM CDT for Freeborn County, Steele County, Waseca County, Minnesota. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 1995, 10:58 PM CDT (03:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 1995, 11:39 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Freeborn County, MN, Steele County, MN, Waseca County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 2673 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1302 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 9.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMSP 150358 RRA SVRMSP MNC047-147-161-150500- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1058 PM CDT FRI JUL 14 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA ...FREEBORN COUNTY...STEELE COUNTY...WASECA COUNTY AT 1055 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MANKATO...NEAR PEMBERTON...TO WALTER...OR 15 MILES EAST OF ALBERT LEA. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH. CITIES IN THE PATH OF THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS INCLUDE WASECA...HOPE... AND ALBERT LEA. 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, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Washington | 25 min |
| Jul 14, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Martin | 52 min |
| Jul 14, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Ramsey, Washington | 48 min |
| Jul 14, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth | 36 min |
| Jul 14, 7:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Anoka, Ramsey, Washington | 31 min |
| Jul 14, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Ramsey, Washington | 26 min |
| Jul 14, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Waseca | 38 min |
| Jul 14, 8:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Redwood | 31 min |
| Jul 14, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott | 64 min |
| Jul 15, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Hennepin, Ramsey, Washington | 60 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.