Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 179, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 1994, 1:37 PM CDT for Chippewa County, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 19, 1994, 1:37 PM CDT (18:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 1994, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Chippewa County, WI, Eau Claire County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 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
- 526 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -196 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1006 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMSP 191839 RRA SVRMSP WIC017-035-191945- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN 137 PM CDT FRI AUG 19 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MINNEAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN ...SOUTHERN CHIPPEWA COUNTY...EAU CLAIRE COUNTY AT 140 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF EAU CLAIRE WISCONSIN. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. CITIES IN THE PATH BY 245 PM INCLUDE...THE CITY OF EAU CLAIRE ANPD FALL CREEK. 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. NAISTAT
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 19, 1:33 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
WIZ025-026-027-028-191945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN 133 PM CDT FRI AUG 19 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN... AT 130 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM EAU CLAIRE TO DURAND AND MENOMONIE...ALL IN WISCONSIN. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 25 MPH. THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAINS...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING WILL AFFFECT THESE WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN COUNTIES BY 245 PM... DUNN CHIPPEWA EAU CLAIRE AND PEPIN. SOME CITIES THAT MAY BE AFFECTED BY THESE STORMS INCLUDE... CHIPPEWA FALLS EAU CLAIRE DURAND AUGUSTA AND BOYD. IF THREATENING CONDTIONS APPROACH..MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. NAISTAT
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 1:35 PM CDT, 2 minutes before
WIZ025-026-027-028-191945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN 133 PM CDT FRI AUG 19 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN... AT 130 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM EAU CLAIRE TO DURAND AND MENOMONIE...ALL IN WISCONSIN. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 25 MPH. THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAINS...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING WILL AFFFECT THESE WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN COUNTIES BY 245 PM... DUNN CHIPPEWA EAU CLAIRE AND PEPIN. SOME CITIES THAT MAY BE AFFECTED BY THESE STORMS INCLUDE... CHIPPEWA FALLS* EAU CLAIRE DURAND AUGUSTA AND BOYD. IF THREATENING CONDTIONS APPROACH..MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. NAISTAT
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.