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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Twin Cities, MN

July 15, 1995Pepin County, Wisconsin

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1995, 3:33 PM CDT for Pepin County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 15, 1995, 3:33 PM CDT (20:33 UTC)
Expired
Jul 15, 1995, 4:00 PM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Whole counties

County Pepin County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 122 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 1995-07-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 139 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-07-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 109 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
139 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-141 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
813 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
83 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 
TTAA00 KMSP 152034 RRA
SVRMSP
WIC091-152100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
333 PM CDT SAT JUL 15 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  400 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN
 
   ...PEPIN COUNTY
 
AT 330 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHERN PEPIN
COUNTY. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR THE TOWN OF DURAND. THESE
STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 14, 7:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXChippewa48 min
Jul 14, 8:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBarron, Rusk60 min
Jul 14, 9:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXRusk41 min

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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.