Dear Gary,
That appears to be a problem with the Data Viewer's handling of subhourly weather data.
If you run a simulation, and then look at the same data from the Profiles tab on the Results page, you should see a more reasonable set of profiles.
Note that SAM's power tower model runs a subhourly simulation, but then aggregates the subhourly results into hourly values.
You can use the SDKtool that is part of the SAM SDK to see the subhourly results. The basic procedure is to use SAM's code generator to export and LK file from SAM and open it in the SDKtool, where you can run simulations and show subhourly results. Let me know if you'd like more detailed instructions for how to do that.
UPDATE 8/9/2017: See this post for detailed instructions:
sam.nrel.gov/node/75047#comment-6801
Best regards,
Paul.