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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Duluth, MN

July 8, 2000Burnett County, Wisconsin

NWS Duluth, MN issued this tornado warning at Jul 8, 2000, 6:45 PM CDT for Burnett County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 30 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: Jul 8, 2000, 6:45 PM CDT (23:45 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 2000, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Duluth, MN
Area: Whole counties

County Burnett County, WI

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, 11.8 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.

109 
WFUS53 KDLH 082347
TORDLH
WIC013-090015-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DULUTH MN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN BURNETT COUNTY IN WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 635 PM CDT LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A TORNADO   
  JUST WEST OF SIREN...OR AT THE JUNCTION OF HIGHWAY 70 AND NYBERG   
  ROAD...OR ABOUT 32 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HINCKLEY...MOVING SOUTH AT   
  10 MPH. TREES HAVE BEEN BLOWN DOWN AND HAIL TO GOLFBALL SIZE HAS 
  ALSO OCCURRED IN WEBSTER AND YELLOW LAKE WITH THIS STORM. 

* THIS TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  NEAR SIREN THROUGH 700 PM CDT
  
HAIL TO GOLFBALL SIZE AND WINDS OVER 65 MPH CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED 
WITH THIS STORM IN WEBSTER THROUGH 655 PM CDT AND COOMER THROUGH 700 
PM CDT.

GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR 
THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS STORM

$$

&

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, 6:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DLH	Burnett	36 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.