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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Duluth, MN

July 8, 2000Burnett County, Wisconsin

NWS Duluth, MN issued this tornado warning at Jul 8, 2000, 6:09 PM CDT for Burnett County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 36 min. 3 reports 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: Jul 8, 2000, 6:09 PM CDT (23:09 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 2000, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Duluth, MN
Area: Whole counties

County Burnett County, WI

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 8, 6:35 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Siren, WI	A weak, short-lived tornado knocked down trees and tore the door and frame from a barn. This tornado continued into Polk County.
Jul 8, 6:39 PM CDT	Hail 1	Siren, WI
Jul 8, 6:42 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Yellow Lake, WI	Numerous trees were also blown down.

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
Jul 8, 4:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 148 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: 2243 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -143 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 972 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 194 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 262 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 7.4

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The text

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

513 
WFUS53 KDLH 082311
TORDLH
WIC013-092345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
609 PM CDT SAT JUL 8 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DULUTH MN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BURNETT COUNTY IN WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT

* AT 609 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR WEBSTER...OR
  ABOUT 29 MILES EAST OF HINCKLEY...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.

* THIS TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  WEBSTER THROUGH 620 PM CDT
  HERTEL...SIREN AROUND 625 PM CDT
  COOMER AROUND 635 PM CDT

THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WHICH
WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME AREA.

GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR

THIS STORM ALSO HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AND 
DAMAGING WIND.

$$

MELDE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 8, 2:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Price	45 min
Jul 8, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Burnett, Douglas	65 min
Jul 8, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Washburn	65 min
Jul 8, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Washburn	61 min
Jul 8, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Burnett	63 min
Jul 8, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Sawyer	59 min
Jul 8, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Washburn	61 min
Jul 8, 6:05 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DLH	Sawyer, Washburn	115 min
Jul 8, 6:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DLH	Burnett	30 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.