Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 1995, 8:53 PM CDT for Le Sueur County, Rice County, Minnesota. It was in force for 52 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 21, 1995, 8:53 PM CDT (01:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 1995, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Le Sueur County, MN, Rice County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 55 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
- 1285 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1034 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 287 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 9.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMSP 220159 RRA SVRMSP MNC079-131-220245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 853 PM CDT FRI JUL 21 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA ...NORTHERN LESUEUR COUNTY...NORTHERN RICE COUNTY AT 855 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED NEAR ST. THOMAS OR 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MINNEAPOLIS. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 10 MPH AND WILL EFFECT THE CITIES OF HEIDELBURG... MONTGOMERY...LEXINGTON...NEW PRAGUE...VESELI...LONSVALE AND WEBSTER. 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. HOWIESON
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 21, 8:14 PM CDT, 39 minutes before
MNZ030>0058-220115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL MN 815 PM CDT FRI JUL 21 1995 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CLEARED FOR ALL OF WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...AND PORTIONS OF THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST. THE COUNTIES NO LONGER IN THE WATCH ARE... SOUTHERN CASS BIG STONE CHIPPEWA DOUGLAS GRANT LAC QUI PARLE OTTER TAIL POPE STEVENS SWIFT TRAVERSE YELLOW MEDICINE KANDIYOHI MEEKER MORRISON CROW WING STEARNS TODD WADENA TDK
Special weather statement, Jul 21, 8:15 PM CDT, 38 minutes before
MNZ030>0058-220115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL MN 815 PM CDT FRI JUL 21 1995 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CLEARED FOR ALL OF WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...AND PORTIONS OF THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST. THE COUNTIES NO LONGER IN THE WATCH ARE... SOUTHERN CASS BIG STONE CHIPPEWA DOUGLAS GRANT LAC QUI PARLE OTTER TAIL POPE STEVENS SWIFT TRAVERSE YELLOW MEDICINE KANDIYOHI MEEKER MORRISON CROW WING STEARNS TODD WADENA TDK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 7:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Sherburne | 27 min |
| Jul 21, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 35 min |
| Jul 21, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Sibley | 47 min |
| Jul 21, 7:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | McLeod, Sibley | 43 min |
| Jul 21, 7:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Isanti | 41 min |
| Jul 21, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Redwood | 46 min |
| Jul 21, 7:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Anoka, Hennepin, Ramsey | 56 min |
| Jul 21, 7:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Scott | 52 min |
| Jul 21, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Washington | 45 min |
| Jul 21, 8:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chisago | 41 min |
| Jul 21, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Carver, Sibley | 50 min |
| Jul 21, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Redwood | 51 min |
| Jul 21, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Isanti | 46 min |
| Jul 21, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver | 69 min |
| Jul 21, 8:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chisago, Washington | 26 min |
| Jul 21, 9:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chisago, Washington | 30 min |
| Jul 21, 9:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Isanti, Mille Lacs, Sherburne | 40 min |
| Jul 21, 9:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Scott | 61 min |
| Jul 21, 9:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dakota, Rice | 52 min |
| Jul 21, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 48 min |
| Jul 21, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Martin, Watonwan | 57 min |
| Jul 21, 10:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Isanti | 40 min |
| Jul 21, 10:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey | 45 min |
| Jul 21, 10:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Anoka | 45 min |
| Jul 21, 10:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chisago | 38 min |
| Jul 21, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Le Sueur | 63 min |
| Jul 21, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Nicollet | 60 min |
| Jul 22, 12:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Mower, Olmsted | 32 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.