Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 1998, 5:58 PM CST for Dunn County, Pepin County, Pierce County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 47 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, 5:58 PM CST (23:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 1998, 6:45 PM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Dunn County, WI, Pepin County, WI, Pierce County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:04 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, 2:00 PM CST | Tornado 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, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 115 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 300001
SVRMSP
WIC033-091-093-300045-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
558 PM CST SUN MAR 29 1998
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
DUNN COUNTY - WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN
PEPIN COUNTY - WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN
PIERCE COUNTY - WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN
* UNTIL 645 PM CST
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
PLUM CITY
DURAND
MENOMONIE
EAU GALLE
* AT 556 PM CST DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE STORMS FROM
10 MILES WEST OF MENOMONIE TO MAIDEN ROCK. THE STORMS WERE MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
THESE ARE DANGEROUS STORMS WITH A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL.
1 INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED IN EASTERN PIERCE COUNTY AT 555 PM. STAY
INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REPLACES THE TORNADO WARNING FOR
SOUTHERN DUNN COUNTY. THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHERN DUNN COUNTY
IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.
MILLER
&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, 4:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron, Chippewa, Rusk | 62 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 |
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.