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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 185, NWS Twin Cities, MN

September 30, 1995Pierce County, Wisconsin

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 30, 1995, 7:06 PM CDT for Pierce County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 30, 1995, 7:06 PM CDT (00:06 UTC)
Expired
Sep 30, 1995, 7:36 PM CDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Whole counties

County Pierce County, WI

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 94 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 1995-10-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 437 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-10-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -67 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
437 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
942 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMSP 010007 RRA
SVRMSP
WIC005-033-093-010100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
706 PM CDT SAT SEP 30 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN
 
   ...BARRON COUNTY...DUNN COUNTY...EASTERN PIERCE COUNTY
 
AT 7 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHWEST
BARRON COUNTY...ABOUT 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF EAU CLAIRE...AND NEAR PLUM
CITY...ABOUT 30 MILES WEST-SOUTHWEST OF EAU CLAIRE.
 
THREE-QUARTER TO ONE INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED NEAR MAIDEN ROCK IN PIERCE
CO\UNTY AT 655 PM.
 
THESE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTH-NORTHEAST AROUND 35 MPH AND WILL AFFECT
THE TOWNS OF RICE LAKE...MENOMONIE...SPRING VALLEY.
 
RICHARDSON/HAMEN
 
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 30, 7:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBarron, Dunn54 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.