Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 1995, 6:10 PM CDT for Rice County, Minnesota. It was in force for 22 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 19, 1995, 6:10 PM CDT (23:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 1995, 6:32 PM CDT
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rice County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1514 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KMSP 192310 SVRMSP MNC131-200000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN ISSUED BY MILWAUKEE/ SULLIVAN WI 610 PM CDT WED JUL 19 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA ...RICE COUNTY AT 610 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LONSDALE WHICH IS 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF FARIBAULT. IT IS MOVING EAST A 25 MPH. 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. DAVIS
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 5:55 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
MNZ065>096-200000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 555 PM CDT WED JUL 19 1995 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELED FOR A SMALL PART OF SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA. HOWEVER THE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA. MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THE WATCH AREA. SOME CITIES NO LONGER IN THE WATCH INCLUDE: MARSHALL...PIPESTONE... SLAYTON AND LUVERNE. MINNESOTA CITIES STILL IN THE WATCH INCLUDE: FAIRMONT...MANKATO... FARIBUALT...ALBERT LEA...ROCHESTER...WABASHA...WASECA AND WORTHINGTON. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. THE WATCH IS VALID UNTIL 10PM CDT. EDWARDS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood | 47 min |
| Jul 19, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown | 45 min |
| Jul 19, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur | 46 min |
| Jul 19, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Nicollet | 42 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.