Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1986, 5:45 PM CDT for Barron County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 1986, 5:45 PM CDT (22:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1986, 6:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Barron County, WI
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 584 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMSP 102245 SVRMSP WIC005-102335- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN 545 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 635 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN...BARRON AT 535 PM CDT A SECERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY RADAR OVER THE EASTERN PORTION OF POLK COUNTY SOUTHEAST OF BALSAM LAKE. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE EFFECTING THE CITIES OF BARRON AND RICE LAKE WHICH ARE ABOUT 40 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF EAU CLAIRE. EARLIER THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM RESULTED IN DOWNED TREES AND POWER LINES OVER PORTIONS OF POLK COUNTY. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE STRONG DAMAGING WINDS..LARGE HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES. ALSO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING..SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF ONE IS SPOTTED. MILLER
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 2:08 PM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL MN 200 PM TUE CDT JUN 10 1986 AT 2 00 PM...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY TO LOCALLY INTENSE SHOWERS WERE MOVING THRU THE TWIN CITIES METRO AREA...MAINLY AROUND THE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AND FROM AROUND SAVAGE/PRIOR LAKE THRU THE BURNSVILLE/APPLE VALLEY AREA TO ST PAUL. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY TO VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE SCATTERED FROM NEAR REDWOOD FALLS TO AROUND WILLMAR...AND FROM NEAR HUTCHINSON /WEST OF THE TWIN CITIES/ TO AROUND MILLE LACS LAKE IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PART OF A BROADER AREA OF RAIN AND SHOWERS THAT COVERED MOST OF MINNESOTA AND PARTS OF NORTHWEST WISCONSIN. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. TWO TO FIVE INCHES OF RAINFALL HAVE BEEN REPORTED...UP TO 2 00 PM...IN PARTS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA...AROUND FORT RIPLEY AND LITTLE FALLS. WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS INTENSIFYING AND PRODUCING RELATIVELY BRIEF VERY HEAVY TO INTENSE RAINFALLS...PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS AND STREETS IS LIKELY. UNDERPASSES AND OTHER LOW STRETCHES ARE ESPECIALLY VULNERABLE. DOM
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 4:58 PM CDT, 47 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL MN 440 PM TUE CDT JUN 10 1986 ..THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS OVER EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA.. THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER THE NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE TWIN CITIES METROPOLITAN AREA..MAINLY OVER CENTRAL AND EASTERN ANOKA COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME AND MAY PRODUCE SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING OF STREETS AND SMALLER STREAMS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ALSO BEEN PRODUCING STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS IN THESE SAME AREAS. THE CURRENT MOVEMENT TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 TO 35 MILES AN HOUR WILL TAKE THESE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH NORTHERN WASHINGTON AND SOUTHERN CHISAGO COUNTIES BY 530 PM AND INTO THE EXTREME WESTERN WISCONSIN COUNTIES OF POLK AND NORTHERN ST CROIX THROUGH 600PM. AT THIS TIME NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED BUT STRONG WINDS.. TORRENTIAL RAIN..SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES ARE LIKELY. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER WIDELY SCATTERED SECTIONS OF SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL MINNESOTA AS WEL AS NORTHWEST WISCONSIN. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. SWANBERG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Polk | 51 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.