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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Twin Cities, MN

July 16, 1995Brown County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1995, 3:06 PM CDT for Brown County, Minnesota. It was in force for 39 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 16, 1995, 3:06 PM CDT (20:06 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 1995, 3:45 PM CDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Whole counties

County Brown County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:06 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 112 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 162009 RRA
SVRMSP
MNC015-162045-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
306 PM CDT SUN JUL 16 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  345 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA
 
   ...BROWN COUNTY
 
AT 305 PM...MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED ONE AND A HALF MILES WEST OF
SPRINGFIELD...OR 35 MILES WEST OF NEW ULM BY A BROWN COUNTY DEPUTY
SHERIFF. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM COMFREY AND HANSKA.
 
THIS STORM IS LIKELY TO PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAINS AND POSSIBLY URBAN AND
SMALL STREAM FLOODING.
 
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 SH2ELTER.
 
JMP/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, 1:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXYellow Medicine27 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.