Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 322, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 26, 1998, 12:18 AM CDT for Polk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 62 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
- Sep 26, 1998, 12:18 AM CDT (05:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 26, 1998, 1:20 AM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Polk County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 26, 1:10 AM CDT | Hail 1.5 | Lewis, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 26, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 1859 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 276 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
094
WUUS1 KMSP 260521 RRA
SVRMSP
WIC095-260620-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
1218 AM CDT SAT SEP 26 1998
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS
ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
POLK COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN
* UNTIL 120 AM CDT
* AT 1215 AM CDT...SEVERE WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE STORM
WITH ONE INCH DIAMETER HAIL NEAR DRESSER OR ABOUT 10 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF BALSAM LAKE. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35
MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
BALSAM LAKE
MILLTOWN
LORAINE
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...WITH LARGE HAIL. STAY INDOORS AWAY
FROM WINDOWS.
CWS
&The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 26, 12:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Eau Claire | 32 min |
| Sep 26, 1:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron | 58 min |
| Sep 26, 1:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Polk | 32 min |
| Sep 26, 1:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rusk | 61 min |
| Sep 26, 2:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron, Chippewa, Dunn | 58 min |
| Sep 26, 2:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rusk | 31 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.