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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Twin Cities, MN

May 19, 1996Chippewa County, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1996, 2:45 AM CDT for Chippewa County, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 60 min. 5 reports 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: May 19, 1996, 2:45 AM CDT (07:45 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 1996, 3:45 AM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Chippewa County, WI, Eau Claire County, WI

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
May 19, 2:50 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 60	New Auburn, WI
May 19, 3:00 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 65	Cadott, WI
May 19, 3:00 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 67	Eau Claire, WI
May 19, 3:10 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 65	Boyd, WI
May 19, 3:25 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 60	Augusta, 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 9 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -231 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2274 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 76 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 150 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 190747
SVRMSP
WIC017-035-107-190845-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN
245 AM CDT SUN MAY 19 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MINNEAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  345 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN
 
   ...EASTERN CHIPPEWA COUNTY...EASTERN EAU CLAIRE COUNTY
   ...EASTERN RUSK COUNTY
 
AT 245 AM CDT...A LINE OF FAST MOVING SEVERE STORMS WAS APPROACHING
STANLELY...BOYD...CADOTT...BRACKETT AND AUGUSTA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING
EAST AT 50 MPH.
 
AT 242 AM...NUMEROUS REPORTS OF DAMAGE WERE REPORTED BY A SHERIFF DEPUTY
IN MENOMONIE.  TREE AND POWER LINE WERE REPORTED BLOWN DOWN.
 
WINDS GREATER THAN 75 MPH MAKE THIS A DANGEROUS STORM.  GET READY
FOR DAMAGING WINDS. MOBILE HOME RESIDENTS SHOULD GO TO A SHELTER.
 
JVM
 
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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, May 19, 2:27 AM CDT, 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MINNESOTA
225 AM CDT SUN MAY 19 1996

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

0155 AM    HUDSON                    WI   WIND DAMAGE
05/19/96   ST CROIX                       MANY ROOFS OFF OF HOMES.
                                          SEVERAL HOMES LEVELLED.
                                          SEVERAL INJURIES.
                                          POSSIBLE TORNADO.
TDK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 18, 11:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Polk, Saint Croix	54 min
May 19, 12:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Polk	53 min
May 19, 12:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Barron, Rusk	62 min
May 19, 12:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Polk	62 min
May 19, 1:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Pierce	58 min
May 19, 1:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Saint Croix	58 min
May 19, 1:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire, Pepin	76 min
May 19, 1:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Barron, Polk, Rusk, Saint Croix	76 min
May 19, 1:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Pierce	76 min
May 19, 2:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Rusk	60 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.