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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Duluth, MN

September 6, 1995Price County, Wisconsin

NWS Duluth, MN issued this tornado warning at Sep 6, 1995, 5:48 PM CDT for Price County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 6, 1995, 5:48 PM CDT (22:48 UTC)
Expired: Sep 6, 1995, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Duluth, MN
Area: Whole counties

County Price County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 222 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 657 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1014 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KDLH 062249
TORDLH
WIC099-062330-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
548 PM CDT WED SEP 6 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DULUTH HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN
 
   ...SOUTHERN PRICE COUNTY
 
AT 547 PM CDT...THE PRICE COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED A TORNADO 5 MILES
SOUTH OF PRENTICE...WHICH IS 28 MILES SOUTH OF PARK FALLS. THE TORNADO
WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 30 MPH.
 
PERSONS IN PRENTICE SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
 
IN A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH
OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.  IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK
SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.
USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID
WINDOWS.
 
DAP
 
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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 6, 5:35 PM CDT, 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  DULUTH MN
535 PM CDT WED SEP 6 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0515 PM    CATAWBA                   WI   1.75 INCH HAIL
09/06/95   PRICE

0526 PM    PRENTICE                  WI   0.75 INCH HAIL
09/06/95   PRICE

DAP

Local storm report, Sep 6, 5:37 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  DULUTH MN
535 PM CDT WED SEP 6 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0515 PM   @ CATAWBA                   WI   1.75 INCH HAIL
09/06/95   PRICE

0526 PM    PRENTICE                  WI   0.75 INCH HAIL
09/06/95   PRICE

DAP

The office that day

Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 6, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Ashland	32 min
Sep 6, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Price	57 min

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.