Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 36, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Sep 6, 1995, 5:22 PM CDT for Dodge County, Minnesota. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 6, 1995, 5:22 PM CDT (22:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 1995, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dodge County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 1389 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 650 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 225 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 283 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KRST 062224 TORRST MNC039-062315- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN 522 PM CDT WED SEP 6 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ROCHESTER MN HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA ...NORTHERN DODGE COUNTY AT 520 PM NUMEROUS REPORTS OF FUNNEL CLOUDS WERE BEING REPORTED NEAR THE STEELE/DODGE COUNTY LINE. THE FUNNELS WERE REPORTED NORTH OF WEST CONCORD. THE CITIES OF BERNE AND DANESVILLE CAN EXPECT THIS STORM BY 525 PM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR STAIRWAY TO AVOID COLLAPSING WALLS. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN A CENTRAL ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET OR BATHROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. TEAL &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 11:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 42 min |
| Sep 6, 12:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood | 51 min |
| Sep 6, 1:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown | 64 min |
| Sep 6, 3:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth | 48 min |
| Sep 6, 3:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth | 25 min |
| Sep 6, 4:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Rice, Steele | 24 min |
| Sep 6, 4:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Steele | 44 min |
| Sep 6, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dodge | 32 min |
| Sep 6, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Mower | 36 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Minnesota, 1995Every tornado warning in 1995Tornadoes in 1995
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.