Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 328, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 26, 1998, 2:17 AM CDT for Barron County, Chippewa County, Dunn County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 58 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
- Sep 26, 1998, 2:17 AM CDT (07:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 26, 1998, 3:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barron County, WI, Chippewa County, WI, Dunn County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 26, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 155 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.
606
WUUS1 KMSP 260719 RRA
SVRMSP
WIC005-017-033-260815-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
217 AM CDT SAT SEP 26 1998
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS
ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN BARRON COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN
NORTHERN CHIPPEWA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN
NORTHEASTERN DUNN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN
* UNTIL 315 AM CDT
* AT AT 213 AM CDT ...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE STORMS NEAR
DALLAS OR 30 MILES NORTH OF MENOMENIE AND NEAR HOLCOMBE OR 30
MILES NORTH OF CHIPPEWA FALLS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35
MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
SAND CREEK
NEW AUBURN
CORNELL
BLOOMER
HOLCOMBE
THIS WARNING REPLACES THE WARNING FOR BARRON COUNTY THAT WAS IN
EFFECT UNTIL 215 AM. THESE ARE DANGEROUS STORMS. STAY INDOORS AWAY
FROM WINDOWS.
DAVISThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 26, 12:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Polk | 62 min |
| 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, 2:44 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.