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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Twin Cities, MN

May 10, 1993Eau Claire County, Wisconsin

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1993, 3:27 PM CDT for Eau Claire County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 28 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 10, 1993, 3:27 PM CDT (20:27 UTC)
Expired
May 10, 1993, 3:55 PM CDT
In force
28 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, 8.5 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 1993-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 1993-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -21 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1075 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-38 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS1 KMSP 102029
SVRMPX
WIC035-102130-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN
327 PM CDT MON MAY 10 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MINNEAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN
 
   ...EAU CLAIRE COUNTY
 
AT 327 PM...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES
NORTHEAST OF MONDOVI IN BUFFALO COUNTY OF WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN.
THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS 25 MILES SOUTHSOUTHEAST OF EAU CLAIRE.
 
THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTH AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL REACH
THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF EAU CLAIRE BY 400 PM.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...
DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  FOR YOUR PROTECTION
MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM.  PEOPLE IN MOBILE HOMES SHOULD GO
TO A STORM SHELTER.
 
WJH

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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.