Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this tornado warning at Aug 9, 1992, 9:26 PM CDT for Sawyer County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 1992, 9:26 PM CDT (02:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 1992, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sawyer County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 5696 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 915 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDLH 100226 TORDLH WIC113-100330- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 926 PM CDT SUN AUG 9 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DULUTH HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST WISCONSIN ...SAWYER COUNTY AT 918 PM CDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED AT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH TORNADIC ACTIVITY OVER THE CITY OF HAYWARD WISCONSIN AND EAST OVER THE LAKE CHIPPEWA REGION OF SAWYER COUNTY WISCONSIN. A TORNADO WAS REPORTED NEAR THE OLSON ROAD AND NELSON LAKE NORTH AND WEST OF HAYWARD AT 855 PM CDT. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH TORNADIC ACTIVITY WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR. CITIES IN THE PATH OF TORNADIC AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY INCLUDE HAYWARD...LAKE CHIPPEWA...AND LORETTA. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. OLSON
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 9, 4:54 PM CDT, 4 hours 32 minutes before
MNZ002-003-004-006-007-092250- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INTERNATIONAL FALLS MN 455 PM CDT SUN AUG 9 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN KOOCHICHING AND NORTH ST LOUIS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA UNTIL 6 PM CDT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. SCW NNNN
Special weather statement, Aug 9, 7:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
MNZ005-008-009-011-012-WIZ001>004-100230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 730 PM CDT SUNDAY AUG 9 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING QUICKLY SOUTH OF DULUTH... AT 717 PM CDT WEATHER RADAR AT DULUTH MINNESOTA HAD DETECTED SEVERAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TO THE SOUTH OF DULUTH OVER EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST WISCONSIN. THESE STORMS WERE 25 TO 70 MILES SOUTH THRU SOUTHEAST FROM DULUTH MINNESOTA. MOVEMENT OF STORMS WAS TO THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH STRONG...POSSIBLY DAMAGING WINDS AND EVEN TORNADOS MAY MOVE INTO THE FOLLOW LOCATIONS DURING THE NEXT HOUR OR FROM 730 TILL 830 PM CDT...SIREN WISCONSIN...CABLE AND DRUMMOND ...SOLON SPRINGS AND GORDON WISCONSIN
Special weather statement, Aug 9, 7:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
MNZ005-008-009-011-012-WIZ001>004-100230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 730 PM CDT SUNDAY AUG 9 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING QUICKLY SOUTH OF DULUTH... AT 717 PM CDT WEATHER RADAR AT DULUTH MINNESOTA HAD DETECTED SEVERAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TO THE SOUTH OF DULUTH OVER EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST WISCONSIN. THESE STORMS WERE 25 TO 70 MILES SOUTH THRU SOUTHEAST FROM DULUTH MINNESOTA. MOVEMENT OF STORMS WAS TO THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH STRONG...POSSIBLY DAMAGING WINDS AND EVEN TORNADOS MAY MOVE INTO THE FOLLOW LOCATIONS DURING THE NEXT HOUR OR FROM 730 TILL 830 PM CDT...SIREN WISCONSIN...CABLE AND DRUMMOND ...SOLON SPRINGS AND GORDON WISCONSIN OLSON
Special weather statement, Aug 9, 8:40 PM CDT, 46 minutes before
WIZ001>004-100230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 840 PM CDT SUN AUG 9 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IN EFFECT FOR BURNETT AND SAWYER COUNTIES WISCONSIN... ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST WISCONSIN UNTIL 2 AM CDT... AT 830 PM CDT A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS BEING TRACKED BY POLICE IN THE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE CITY OF HAYWARD WISCONSIN. THE FUNNEL CLOUD WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST. THIS SEVERE STORM OVER SAWYER COUNTY MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO ON THE GROUND AT ANY TIME. A FUNNEL CLOUD HAS BEEN REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC 8 MILES SOUTH OF DANBURY IN NORTHERN BURNETT COUNTY WISCONSIN NEAR WEBSTER. THIS SEVERE STORM OVER SIREN WISCONSIN IN BURNETT COULD PRODUChE A TORNADO WITHOUT NOTICE AT ANY TIME. OLSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Sawyer | 68 min |
| Aug 9, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Burnett | 68 min |
| Aug 9, 9:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Burnett, Washburn | 32 min |
| Aug 9, 11:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Sawyer | 30 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.