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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 173, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 1996, 1:31 AM CDT for Rusk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 44 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 7, 1996, 1:31 AM CDT (06:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 1996, 2:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rusk County, WI
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 173 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 2:00 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Hawkins, WI |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 4613 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 993 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMSP 070634
SVRMSP
WIC017-035-107-070720-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
131 AM CDT WED AUG 7 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
EASTERN CHIPPEWA COUNTY - WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN
EASTERN EAU CLAIRE COUNTY - WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN
EASTERN RUSK COUNTY - NORTHWEST WISCONSIN
* UNTIL 215 AM CDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
GLEN FLORA
STANLEY
AUGUSTA
SHELDON
* AT 130 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM LADYSMITH TO JIM FALLS TO 10 MILES
EAST OF EAU CLAIRE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...WITH DAMAGING WINDS. STAY INDOORS AWAY
FROM WINDOWS.
MILLERWhat 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 7, 12:49 AM CDT, 42 minutes before
MNZ004>096-070650- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1246 AM CDT WED AUG 7 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA... THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT HAS ENDED ACROSS THE TWIN CITIES METRO AREA AS WELL AS ADJOINING PORTIONS OF CENTRAL INTO SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA. THEREFORE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...SOUTHERN ST. LOUIS...CARLTON...PINE...GOODHUE ...RICE...WASECA...STEELE...DODGE...OLMSTED...WINONA...FARIBAULT ...FREEBORN...MOWER...FILLMORE AND HOUSTON. SOME CITIES STILL INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE DULUTH...CLOQUET... ROCHESTER...ALBERT LEA...OWATONNA...AUSTIN AND WINONA. MBK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pierce | 55 min |
| Aug 6, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Polk, Saint Croix | 55 min |
| Aug 7, 12:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron, Chippewa, Dunn, Rusk | 64 min |
| Aug 7, 1:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Eau Claire | 44 min |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.