Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 132, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 12, 1995, 9:20 AM CDT for Chippewa County, Dunn County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 12, 1995, 9:20 AM CDT (14:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 1995, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Chippewa County, WI, Dunn County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 2732 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 711 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMSP 121421 RRA SVRMSP WIC017-033-121500- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 920 AM CDT SAT AUG 12 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN ...CHIPPEWA COUNTY...EASTERN DUNN COUNTY AT 920 AM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 15 MILES WEST OF CHIPPEWA FALLS...NEAR COLFAX. THE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL AFFECT COLFAX...CHIPPEWA FALLS...AND LAKE WISSOTA STATE PARK. 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. KRC
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
Local storm report, Aug 12, 9:10 AM CDT, 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
910 AM CDT SAT AUG 12 1995
TIME(CDT) .....LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
0400 AM 35 NE MSP WI 1.75 INCH DIAMETER HAIL
08/12/95 POLK QUARTER TO GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
BETWEEN OSCEOLA AND DRESSER.
NUMEROUS CROPS. LATE REPORT.
0400 AM 35 NE MSP WI WIND DAMAGE
08/12/95 POLK TWO MOBILE HOMES DAMAGED.
NUMEROUS TREES DOWN. HAYWAGON
OVERTURNED. BETWEEN OSCEOLA
AND DRESSER. LATE REPORT.
KRCLocal storm report, Aug 12, 9:11 AM CDT, 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
910 AM CDT SAT AUG 12 1995
TIME(CDT) .....LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
0400 AM 35 NE MSP WI 1.75 INCH DIAMETER HAIL
08/12/95 POLK QUARTER TO GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
BETWEEN OSCEOLA AND DRESSER.
NUMEROUS CROPS. LATE REPORT.
0400 AM 35 NE MSP WI WIND DAMAGE
08/12/95 POLK TWO MOBILE HOMES DAMAGED.
NUMEROUS TREES DOWN. HAYWAGON
OVERTURNED. BETWEEN OSCEOLA
AND DRESSER. LATE REPORT.
KRCThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Saint Croix | 58 min |
| Aug 12, 5:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn | 58 min |
| Aug 12, 5:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Saint Croix | 30 min |
| Aug 12, 9:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 34 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.