Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1991, 11:28 PM CDT for Rusk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 62 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 5, 1991, 11:28 PM CDT (04:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 1991, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rusk County, WI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 12:00 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Rusk, WI | |
| Jul 6, 12:15 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Rusk, WI |
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
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 263 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -224 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1669 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 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 060426 SVRMSP WIC107-060530- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN 1128 PM CDT FRI JUL 5 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MINNEAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN ...RUSK COUNTY AT 1125 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHEAST WASHBURN COUNTY...18 MILES NORTH OF RICE LAKE. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. ON ITS PRESENT COURSE THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL PASS THROUGH LADYSMITH AT 1205 AM. 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 WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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, Jul 5, 7:42 PM CDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before
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
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 7:47 PM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before
MNZ011-012-060145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST CLOUD MINNESOTA 747 PM CDT FRI JUL 5 1991 AT 745 PM CDT THIS FRIDAY EVENING A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTH OF BRAINERD MINNESOTA MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM HAS PRODUCED TORNADOS AS IT PASSED THROUGH THE BRAINERD AREA. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL PASS OVER MILLE LACS LAKE BETWEEN 8:00 AND 8:15 PM THIS FRIDAY EVENING. PERSONS AROUND OR ON MILLE LACS LAKE AND THE NORTHERN HALF OF MILLE LACS COUNTY SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER AS THIS IS A VERY LARGE AND DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORM. NNNN
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 8:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before
MNZ011-012-060215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST CLOUD MINNESOTA 810 PM CDT FRI JUL 5 1991 BETWEEN 7 40 AND 8 00 PM CDT A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCED TORNADOES IN THE GULL LAKE AREA NORTHWEST AND NORTH OF BRAINERD MINNESOTA. AT 8 10 PM CDT THIS SAME THUNDERSTORM WAS APPROACHING THE NORTHWEST SHORE OF MILLE LACS LAKE AND WAS MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 30 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM REMAINS VERY DANGEROUS. ALL BOATERS SHOULD GET OFF MILLE LACS LAKE IMMEDIATELY...THERE IS NO TIME TO WASTE...GET OFF THE LAKE. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE OVER THE LAKE BETWEEN 8 15 AND 8 45 PM CDT. PEOPLE IN NORTHERN MILLE LACS COUNTY SHOULD BE READY TO TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE OVER NORTHERN MILLE LACS COUNTY BETWEEN 8 15 AND 8 30 PM CDT. NNNN
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 8:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
MNZ015-016-017-018-060145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS ST PAUL MN 845 PM CDT FRI JUL 5 1991 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE WEAKENGING OVER SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... AT 835 PM...THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED OVER SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA WERE LOOSING STRENGTH AS THEY MOVED EASTWARD. AT 8 PM THESE STORMS DID DROP SOME PEA TO MARBLE SIZED HAIL IN CENTRAL RENVILLE COUNTY NEAR THE TOWN OF DANUBE...AFTER THAT THEY ONLY BECAME WEAKER. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM HECTOR AND FAIRFAX SOUTH TO...WALNUT GROVE AND WINDOM. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 40 MPH...AND THE STRONGEST STORMS WHICH WERE LOCATED AROUND WALNUT GROVE COULD PRODUCE HAIL...INTENSE RAINFALL AND GUSTY WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...AS THEY MOVE THROUGH LAMBERTON...WABASSO AND SPRINGFIELD IN SOUTHERN REDWOOD AND WESTERN BROWN COUNTIES OF SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA. CONDITIONS ARE STILL FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER AND A TORNADO WATCH IS STILL IN EFFECT FOR MUCH O.F CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA UNTIL 1 AM SATURDAY MORNING.
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 9:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
MNZ015-016-017-018-060345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS ST PAUL MN 945 PM CDT FRI JUL 5 1991 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA. AT 930 PM...THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM LE SEUER TO ST PETER. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HEAVY RAINS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PART OF A LARGER AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED FROM JUST SOUTH OF REDWOOD FALLS NEAR WABASSO TO AROUND NEW PRAQUE AND MAPLETON. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER. A TORNADO WATCH IS EFFECT FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA UNTIL 1 AM SATURDAY MORNING.
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 10:50 PM CDT, 38 minutes before
MNZ015-016-017-018-060345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS ST PAUL MN 1045 PM CDT FRI JUL 5 1991 AT 1030 PM...A LARGE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST THROUGH CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND HAS NOW MOVED INTO NORTHWEST WISCONSIN NEAR GRANTSBURG AND SIREN. THIS THUNDERSTORM HAS A HISTORY OF FUNNEL CLOUDS...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND LARGE HAIL. ALTHOUGH THEIR HAS BEEN ONLY HEAVY RAIN REPORTED SINCE ABOUT 10 15 PM...IT STILL HAS THE POTENTIAL FOR FUNNEL CLOUDS AND HAIL AS WELL AS VERY HEAVY RAIN. THIS THUNDERSTORM SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN LIGHTLY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROCHES TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST 40 MILES AN HOUR. IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA AN AREA OF THUNDERSHOWERS CONTINUES NEAR MADELIA. SOUTHWEST OF MANKATO. CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS FOR MUCH OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA UNTIL 2 AM SATURDAY MORNING.
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.