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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 5, 1999Rusk County, Wisconsin

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 1999, 6:58 PM CDT for Rusk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 32 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: Jun 5, 1999, 6:58 PM CDT (23:58 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 1999, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Whole counties

County Rusk County, WI

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 173 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:01 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
Jun 5, 7:15 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Hawkins, 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
Jun 5, 2:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 206 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: 358 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -218 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1247 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

160 
WFUS1 KMSP 052359 RRA
TORMSP
WIC107-060030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
658 PM CDT SAT JUN 5 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS
ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN RUSK COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT

* AT 658 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 10 MILES
  EAST OF LADYSMITH.  THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  GLEN FLORA
  INGRAM
  HAWKINS


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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Polk	33 min
Jun 5, 4:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Saint Croix	32 min
Jun 5, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Polk	40 min
Jun 5, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Saint Croix	56 min
Jun 5, 5:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Barron, Dunn	55 min
Jun 5, 6:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Rusk	39 min
Jun 5, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Rusk	32 min

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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.