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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Twin Cities, MN

July 16, 1995Lac qui Parle County, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1995, 12:52 PM CDT for Lac qui Parle County, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 16, 1995, 12:52 PM CDT (17:52 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 1995, 1:45 PM CDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Lac qui Parle County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 188 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, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 1995-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 859 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, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 1995-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
859 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1008 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMSP 161751
SVRMSP
MNC073-173-161830-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
1252 PM CDT SUN JUL 16 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  130 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
 
   ...LAC QUI PARLE COUNTY...YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY
 
AT 1250 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 10
MILES SOUTH OF MARIETTA OR ABOUT 20 MILES WEST OF MADISON. THIS STORM
WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL BE AFFECTING THE TOWNS OF
MADISON...DAWSON...CANBY...AND GRANITE FALLS.
 
THIS STORM HAS T&HE CAPABILITY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...TORRENTIAL
RAINS...AND DAMAGING WINDS.
 
MJM/WJH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 1:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXYellow Medicine27 min
Jul 16, 3:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBrown39 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.