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Tornado Warning 29, NWS Twin Cities, MN

July 27, 1995Redwood County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jul 27, 1995, 8:05 AM CDT for Redwood County, Minnesota. It was in force for 25 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 27, 1995, 8:05 AM CDT (13:05 UTC)
Expired
Jul 27, 1995, 8:30 AM CDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Whole counties

County Redwood County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 140 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 1995-07-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 467 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, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 1995-07-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 163 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
467 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-305 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1285 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
163 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
239 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 27, 7:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXRedwood50 min
Jul 27, 8:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXRedwood38 min
Jul 27, 8:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBrown64 min
Jul 27, 8:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXWatonwan41 min
Jul 27, 9:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBlue Earth, Nicollet62 min
Jul 27, 9:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXWatonwan50 min
Jul 27, 9:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXFaribault46 min
Jul 27, 10:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXFaribault47 min
Jul 27, 10:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXFreeborn, Steele, Waseca58 min
Jul 27, 11:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXMower60 min
Jul 27, 11:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXDodge39 min
Jul 27, 11:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXFreeborn31 min
Jul 27, 12:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXFillmore51 min
Jul 27, 3:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXWabasha, Winona20 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.