Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 29, 1992, 3:52 PM CDT for Burnett County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 16 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 29, 1992, 3:52 PM CDT (20:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 1992, 4:08 PM CDT
- In force
- 16 min
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Burnett County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1179 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDLH 292053 SVRDLH WIC013-129-292130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 352 PM CDT SAT AUG 29 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DULUTH HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST WISCONSIN ...SOUTHERN BURNETT COUNTY...SOUTHERN WASHBURN COUNTY AT 350 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WAS ENTERING SOUTHERN BURNETT COUNTY... 85 MILES SOUTH OF DULUTH. THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL CROSS SOUTHERN BURNETT AND WASHBURN COUNTIES BY 420 PM CDT. IF YOU ARE IN SHELL LAKE... TAKE COVER NOW! 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 D6ON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. WESTERGARD
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, Aug 29, 11:47 AM CDT, 4 hours 5 minutes before
MNZ004-005-007-008-009-011-012-WIZ001-003-291745- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 1145 AM CDT SAT AUG 29 1992 AT 1140 AM CDT A SMALL GROUP OF HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN... SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS WAS JUST SOUTH OF HILL CITY... 70 MILES WEST OF DULUTH. THOSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PART OF A LARGE AREA OF RAIN OVER NORTHEAST MINNESOTA. THE LEADING EDGE OF THAT AREA WAS PUSHING INTO NORTHWEST WISCONSIN FROM THE WESTERN TIP OF LAKE SUPERIOR TO NEAR GRANTSBURG... 80 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF DULUTH. THE INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 25 MILES AN HOUR... WHILE THE AREA WAS EXPANDING EAST AT ABOUT 20 MILES AN HOUR. WESTERGARD
Special weather statement, Aug 29, 12:46 PM CDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before
MNZ004-005-007-008-009-011-012-WIZ001>003-291845- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 1245 PM CDT SAT AUG 29 1992 AT 1240 PM CDT A CURVED LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM NEAR LAKE VERMILLION... 70 MILES NORTH OF DULUTH TO MEADOWLANDS... FLOODWOOD AND SOUTH TO NEAR MILLE LACS LAKE... 75 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DULUTH THOSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PART OF A LARGE AREA OF RAIN OVER NORTHEAST MINNESOTA. THE LEADING EDGE OF THAT AREA WAS PUSHING INTO NORTHWEST WISCONSIN FROM CORNUCOPIA... 50 MILES EAST OF DULUTH TO SOLON SPRINGS... 35 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF DULUTH. THE INDIVIDUAL STORMS AND SHOWERS WERE ALL MOVING SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 25 MILES AN HOUR... AND THE FOLL3OWING TOWNS CAN EXPECT TO HEAR THUNDER BEFORE 145 PM... VIRGINIA... COTTON... ALBORN... BROOKSTON... CROMWELL AND LAWLER... ALL IN NORTHEAST MINNESOTA. WESTERGARD
Special weather statement, Aug 29, 1:26 PM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before
MNZALL-231755- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INTERNATIONAL FALLS MN 120 PM CDT SAT AUG 29 1992 RAIN AND RAIN SHOWERS COVER MOST OF NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA. MOST OF THE PRECIPITATION IS LIGHT RAIN BUT THERE ARE A FEW HEAVIER RAIN SHOWERS WITHIN THE AREA. THE AREA AND THE HEAVY SHOWERS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE INDOORS IF NECESSARY. WE URGE YOU TO MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND LOCAL MEDIA FOR UPDATES ON THE WEATHER IN THIS AREA. JH
Special weather statement, Aug 29, 2:54 PM CDT, 58 minutes before
MNZ004-005-007>009-011-012-WIZ001>004-292100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 252 PM CDT SAT AUG 29 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND ALL OF NORTHWEST WISCONSIN TIL 800 PM CDT... AT 245 THIS AFTERNOON A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING ACROSS NORTHEAST MINNESOTA AND INTO NORTHWEST WISCONSIN. A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM ISABELLA TO DULUTH THEN SOUTH TO CAMBRIDGE IN MINNESOTA. THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED JUST TO THE WEST OF WALES MINNESOTA. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT FOR EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST WISCONSIN. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE IN INTENSITY AS THE AFTERNOON WEARS ON AND PERSONS IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA SHOULD CONTINUE TO LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. PYE
Special weather statement, Aug 29, 3:16 PM CDT, 36 minutes before
MNZ009-012-WIZ001-003-292115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 314 PM CDT SAT AUG 29 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ENTERING BURNETT COUNTY.... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT FOR EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST WISCONSIN... AT 310 THIS AFTERNOON STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED RAPIDLY IN FAR EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND WERE MOVING INTO NORTHWEST WISCONSIN. THE THUNDERSTORM EXTENDED FROM MARKVILLE MINNESOTA SOUTH TO DANBURY WISCONSIN ALONG THE ST. CROIX RIVER. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING QUICKLY TO THE EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR AND ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. PERSONS SHOULD MOVE INDOORS AS THESE STORMS APPROACH AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. PYE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Washburn | 38 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.