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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Twin Cities, MN

July 21, 1995Hennepin County, Wright County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jul 21, 1995, 6:55 PM CDT for Hennepin County, Wright County, Minnesota. It was in force for 35 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 21, 1995, 6:55 PM CDT (23:55 UTC)
Expired: Jul 21, 1995, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Hennepin County, MN, Wright County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:56 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 21, 7:34 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Plymouth, MN	Barn and garage destroyed. Garage roof found one-quarter mile away. Shown live on local television.
Jul 21, 7:35 PM CDT	Tornado F1	Corcoran, MN	Barn and garage destroyed. Garage roof found one-quarter mile away. Shown live on local television.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 28 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1156 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMSP 212358
TORMSP
MNC171-053-220030-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
655 PM CDT FRI JUL 21 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA
 
   ...EASTERN WRIGHT COUNTY
 
IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
 
   ...NORTHWESTERN HENNEPIN COUNTY
 
AT 655 PM CDT...A SHERIFFS DEPUTY HAS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD EAST OF
MONTROSE OR 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF MINNEAPOLIS. THIS STORM IS MOVING
TO THE EAST AT 10 MPH. SOME CITIES IN THE PATH ARE
ARMSTRONG...LINDALE...AND MAPLE PLAIN. GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL HAS BEEN
REPORTED NEAR ROCKFORD WITH THIS STORM.
 
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.
 
HOWIESON
 
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 21, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Morrison	33 min
Jul 21, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Morrison	14 min
Jul 21, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Benton, Morrison	60 min
Jul 21, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Meeker, Wright	56 min
Jul 21, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Stearns	61 min
Jul 21, 6:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Wright	28 min
Jul 21, 6:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	McLeod, Renville, Sibley	51 min
Jul 21, 6:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	McLeod	27 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.