Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 1998, 4:43 PM CST for Barron County, Chippewa County, Rusk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 62 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 29, 1998, 4:43 PM CST (22:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 1998, 5:45 PM CST
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barron County, WI, Chippewa County, WI, Rusk County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 168 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:43 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 11:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Mar 29, 2:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Mar 29, 3:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 551 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 251 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 292243
SVRMSP
WIC017-005-107-292345-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
443 PM CST SUN MAR 29 1998
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
CHIPPEWA COUNTY - WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN
SOUTHERN RUSK COUNTY - NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN
SOUTHEAST BARRON COUNTY - NORTHWEST WISCONSIN
* UNTIL 545 PM CST
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
NEW AUBURN
ISLAND LAKE
BLOOMER
CHETEK
* AT 440 PM CST DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE STORM WITH LARGE
HAIL AND STRONG WINDS NEAR SAND CREEK OR ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTH OF
BARRON. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. HIGH WINDS
WERE REPORTED 5 MILES WEST OF COLFAX AT 4365 PM CST.
DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
MBKWhat 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, Mar 29, 12:26 PM CST, 4 hours 17 minutes before
MNZ041>045-047>070-073>078-082>085-091>093-WIZ014>016-023>028-292100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1226 PM CST SUN MAR 29 1998 ...SEVERE WEATHER POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... CONDITIONS ARE STILL PRIMED FOR SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOPMENT ACROSS SOUTHERN MINNESOTA AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP BY MID AFTERNOON IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA BEFORE PROPAGATING EASTWARD INTO SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA AND WEST WISCONSIN. THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED SOUTH OF A REDWOOD FALLS TO MINNEAPOLIS TO RICE LAKE LINE COULD BE PARTICULARLY STRONG WITH THE POTENTIAL OF TORNADIC THUNDERSTORMS. PLEASE STAY TUNED FOR THE LATEST ON THIS PARTICULARLY STRONG SPRING STORM. TIPTON
Special weather statement, Mar 29, 12:26 PM CST, 4 hours 17 minutes before
MNZ041>045-047>070-073>078-082>085-091>093-WIZ014>016-023>028-292100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1226 PM CST SUN MAR 29 1998 ...SEVERE WEATHER POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... CONDITIONS ARE STILL PRIMED FOR SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOPMENT ACROSS SOUTHERN MINNESOTA AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP BY MID AFTERNOON IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA BEFORE PROPAGATING EASTWARD INTO SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA AND WEST WISCONSIN. THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED SOUTH OF A REDWOOD FALLS TO MINNEAPOLIS TO RICE LAKE LINE COULD BE PARTICULARLY STRONG WITH THE POTENTIAL OF TORNADIC THUNDERSTORMS. PLEASE STAY TUNED FOR THE LATEST ON THIS PARTICULARLY STRONG SPRING STORM. TIPTON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 3:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pierce | 63 min |
| Mar 29, 3:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Polk, Saint Croix | 56 min |
| Mar 29, 4:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn | 46 min |
| Mar 29, 4:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dunn | 41 min |
| Mar 29, 4:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Polk | 37 min |
| Mar 29, 5:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MPX | Pepin | 28 min |
| Mar 29, 5:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dunn | 47 min |
| Mar 29, 5:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Eau Claire | 39 min |
| Mar 29, 5:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 65 min |
| Mar 29, 5:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn, Pepin, Pierce | 47 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.