Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1993, 5:53 PM CDT for Eau Claire County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 52 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 27, 1993, 5:53 PM CDT (22:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 1993, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 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, 10.9 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
- 895 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 237 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 272254 SVRMSP WIC035-272345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN 553 PM CDT TUE JUL 27 1993 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 552 PM CDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EAU CLAIRE...SOUTH OF ROCK FALLS. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE ACROSS EAU CLAIRE COUNTY...NEAR OR JUST SOUTH OF EAU CLAIRE BETWEEN 600 PM AND 630 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. EDWARDS
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 27, 5:16 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
WIZ003-006-272315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN 513 PM CDT TUE JUL 27 1993 AT 510 PM A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER PEPIN COUNTY NEAR THE TOWN OF DURAND...WHICH IS 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EAU CLAIRE. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL MOVINTO SOUTHERN DUNN COUNTY SHORTLY. TOWNS IN SOUTHERN DUNN COUNTY WHICH THIS STORM IS APPROACHING INCLUDE ROCK FALLS AND DOWNSVILLET. IF YOU ARE IN PEPIN COUNTY OR SOUTHERN DUNN COUNTY EXPECT HEAVY RAIN... SMALL HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS FROM THIS STORM. DRB/KME
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 5:37 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
WIZ003-006-272345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN 536 PM CDT TUE JUL 27 1993 AT 530 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CONTINUED OVER PEPIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN NEAR THE TOWN OF DURAND...WHICH IS ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EAU CLAIRE. THE STORM APPEARED TO HAVE RECENTLY SLOWED IN SPEED TO THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR. TOWNS IN SOUTHERN DUNN COUNTY WHICH WOULD BE IN THE PATH OF THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE ROCK FALLS AND DOWNSVILLE. PERSONS IN PEPIN COUNTY AS WELL AS SOUTHERN DUNN COUNTY SHOULD EXPECT HEAVY RAINS...POSSIBLE HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS AS THIS STORM PASSES THROUGH. KME
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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.