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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Twin Cities, MN

July 16, 1995Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1995, 1:48 PM CDT for Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 16, 1995, 1:48 PM CDT (18:48 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 1995, 2:15 PM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Whole counties

County Yellow Medicine County, MN

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:48 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

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 180 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 1995-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -52 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
684 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-3 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 161846 RRA
SVRMSP
MNC173-161915-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
148 PM CDT SUN JUL 16 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  215 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
 
   ...EASTERN YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY
 
AT 145 PM...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10
MILES SOUTH OF GRANITE FALLS. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT
20 MPH AND SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE HANLEY
FALLS...ECHO...AND WOOD LAKE.
 
LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND TORRENTIAL RAINS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM.
 
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR LAC QUI PARLE AND WESTERN YELLOW
MEDICINE HAS EXPIRED.
 
MJM/WJH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 12:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXLac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine53 min
Jul 16, 3:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBrown39 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.