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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Twin Cities, MN

May 30, 1994Rusk County, Wisconsin

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1994, 7:49 PM CDT for Rusk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 41 min.

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The facts

Issued
May 30, 1994, 7:49 PM CDT (00:49 UTC)
Expired
May 30, 1994, 8:30 PM CDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Whole counties

County Rusk County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 206 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 00:00Z on 1994-05-31Temperature 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 00:00Z on 1994-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -182 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
2185 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-182 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-23 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 
TTAA00 KMSP 310049
SVRMSP
WIC107-310130-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN
749 PM CDT MON MAY 30 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MINNEAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING     EFFECTIVE UNTIL  830 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN
 
   ...EASTERN RUSK COUNTY
 
AT 745 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR LADYSMITH IN
NORTHWEST WISCONSIN. THE STORM WILL BE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH
TOWARD GLEN FLORA...CONRATH AND SHELDON.
 
LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
 
 
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.
 
JHM

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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.