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Tornado Warning 30, NWS Twin Cities, MN

August 6, 1995Carver County, McLeod County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Aug 6, 1995, 7:03 PM CDT for Carver County, McLeod County, Minnesota. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 6, 1995, 7:03 PM CDT (00:03 UTC)
Expired
Aug 6, 1995, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Carver County, MN, McLeod County, MN

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 344 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, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 1995-08-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1584 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, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 1995-08-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1584 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1275 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
84 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.6

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 6, 8:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXMcLeod, Sibley55 min
Aug 6, 11:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXMcLeod, Sibley42 min
Aug 7, 3:57 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMPXTodd3 hr

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.