Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this tornado warning at Aug 14, 2000, 7:56 PM CDT for Burnett County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 34 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
- Aug 14, 2000, 7:56 PM CDT (00:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2000, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Burnett County, WI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 8:15 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Falun, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1622 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -190 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1708 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 361 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KDLH 150056 TORDLH WIC013-150130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 756 PM CDT MON AUG 14 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DULUTH MN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN BURNETT COUNTY IN WISCONSIN * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 756 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF GRANTSBURG...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HINCKLEY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THIS TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... ALPHA...BRANSTAD AROUND 805 PM CDT FALUN...TRADE LAKE AROUND 810 PM CDT FOUR CORNERS AROUND 815 PM CDT SIREN AROUND 820 PM CDT GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR NOW! $$ SCW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Price | 47 min |
| Aug 14, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Burnett | 28 min |
| Aug 14, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Burnett, Washburn | 67 min |
| Aug 14, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Burnett | 47 min |
| Aug 14, 9:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Burnett | 35 min |
| Aug 14, 9:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Burnett, Washburn | 31 min |
| Aug 14, 10:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Burnett | 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.