Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 1991, 7:33 PM CDT for Barron County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 28, 1991, 7:33 PM CDT (00:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 1991, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Barron County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 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
- 3476 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 941 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 385 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 583 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 11.6
- Supercell composite
- 41.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMSP 290033
SVRMSP
WIC005-290115-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN
733 PM CDT FRI JUN 28 1991
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE WEST CENTRAL PART OF WISCONSIN
NORTHERN BARRON
AT....725 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST
NORTHWEST OF CUMBERLAND OR 25 MILES WEST..NORTHWEST OF RICE LAKE
WISCONSIN.
THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST..NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
SOME CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE HAUGEN..
CUMBERLAND AND AREAS NEAR RICE LAKE.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL..DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON`T DRIVE
INTO AREAS WHERE WA TER COVERS THE ROAD. ALSO REMEMBER SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH
LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
JPRWhat 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 28, 6:58 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
MNZ016-012-WIZ006-290100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN 655 PM CDT FRI JUN 28 1991 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS BUILDING ACROSS EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST WISCONSIN... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE CONTINUED TO DEVELOPE NORTH AND NORTHEAST OF THE TWIN CITIES ACROSS PARTS OF ISANTI AND CHISAGO COUNTIES OF EASTERN MINNESOTA INTO POLK AND BURNETT COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST WISCONSIN. THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM AROUND RUSH CITY AND CAMBRIDGE TO NEAR TAYLORS FALLS ON THE MINNESOTA SIDE OF THE ST CROIX RIVER AND FROM CUSHING TO BALSAM LAKE IN ADJACENT WISCONSIN. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES... STRONG GUSTY WINDS AS WELL AS LOCALLLY VERY HEAVY RAINS AS THEY MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST AT AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR. < A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A PORTION OF EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA INTO MUCH OF NORTHWEST WISCONSIN UNTIL MIDNIGHT. SWANBERG
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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.