Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 29, 1992, 5:59 PM CDT for Eau Claire County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 31 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 29, 1992, 5:59 PM CDT (22:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 1992, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Eau Claire County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 183 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 KMSP 292259 SVRMSP WIC035-292330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN 559 PM CDT SAT AUG 29 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MINNEAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN ...EAU CLAIRE COUNTY AT 600 PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS OCCURRING NEAR ALTOONA...ABOUT 5 MILES EAST OF THE CITY OF EAU CLAIRE...IN EAU CLAIRE COUNTY OF WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. LARGE HAIL IS INDICATED WITH THIS STORM. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE EAU CLAIRE...ALTOONA...FALL CREEK...AND LUDINGTON. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE ADVANCE WARNING HARRISON/KRAFT
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, 3:27 PM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before
WIZ-003-006-292100 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS ST PAUL MN 325 PM CDT SAT AUG 29 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH NORTHWEST WISCONSIN... AT 315 PM...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHWEST WISCONSIN FROM ST CROIX FALLS TO GRANTSBURG. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD MOVE TO HAYWARD AND MINONG BY 415 PM. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING. MBM
Special weather statement, Aug 29, 3:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before
MNZALL-WIZ003-006-292200 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS ST PAUL MN 355 PM CDT SAT AUG 29 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH NORTHWEST WISCONSIN... AT 330 PM...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM LUCK TO YELLOW LAKE. THIS IS 40 MILES WEST NORTHWEST FROM RICE LAKE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD MOVE TO SPOONER AND SHELL LAKE BY 4 PM AND SHOULD APPROACH HAYWARD AND STONE LAKE BY 420 PM. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING. ELSEWHERE...SHOWERS AND BTHUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM SOLON SPRINGS WISCONSIN TO FOREST LAKE MINNESOTA AND FROM CLOQUET MINNESOTA TO PRINCETON. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. MBM
Special weather statement, Aug 29, 4:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
MNZALL-WIZ003-006-292200 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS ST PAUL MN 355 PM CDT SAT AUG 29 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH NORTHWEST WISCONSIN... AT 330 PM...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWEST WISCONSIN FROM LUCK TO YELLOW LAKE. THIS IS 40 MILES WEST NORTHWEST FROM RICE LAKE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD MOVE TO SPOONER AND SHELL LAKE BY 4 PM AND SHOULD APPROACH HAYWARD AND STONE LAKE BY 420 PM. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING. ELSEWHERE...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER NORTHWEST WISCONSIN AND EAST CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST MINNESOTA. THE SHOWERS WERE LOCATED FROM SOLON SPRINGS WISCONSIN TO FOREST LAKE WISCONSIN AND FROM CLOQUET MINNESOTA TO PRINCETON. X MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. MBM
Special weather statement, Aug 29, 4:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
MNZ009-012-016-018-019-292330 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS ST PAUL MN 435 PM CDT SAT AUG 29 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA... THE MINNESOTA PORTION OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 789 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR ALL BUT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF MINNESOTA. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS NOW IN EFFECT EAST OF A LINE FROM NORTHFIELD TO AUSTIN AND SOUTH OF HASTINGS UNTIL 800 PM. SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDE ROCHESTER ...WABASHA...WINONA AND REDWING. THE TWIN CITIES METROPOLITAN AREA IS NO LONGER INCLUDED IN THIS WATCH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pepin | 46 min |
| Aug 29, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 30 min |
| Aug 29, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 29 min |
| Aug 29, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Clark | 57 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992
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.