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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 109, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 2000, 10:46 PM CDT for Polk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 59 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
- Aug 14, 2000, 10:46 PM CDT (03:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2000, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Polk County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 113 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 WUUS53 KMPX 150349 SVRMSP WIC005-095-107-150445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1046 PM CDT MON AUG 14 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BARRON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN NORTHERN POLK COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN RUSK COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 1145 PM CDT * AT 1046 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF FREDERIC...OR ABOUT 17 MILES NORTH OF BALSAM LAKE...NEAR BARRON. THE STROSM WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... FREDERIC RICE LAKE LADYSMITH BARRON CUMBERLAND WEYERHAUESER A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron, Rusk | 65 min |
| Aug 14, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Rusk | 30 min |
| Aug 14, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Polk | 35 min |
| Aug 14, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Rusk | 43 min |
| Aug 14, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron | 46 min |
| Aug 14, 8:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Polk | 33 min |
| Aug 14, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron | 46 min |
| Aug 14, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rusk | 43 min |
| Aug 14, 9:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Polk | 36 min |
| Aug 14, 10:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Barron | 34 min |
| Aug 14, 10:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Barron, Rusk | 3 hr |
| Aug 14, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron, Rusk | 59 min |
| Aug 14, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron, Chippewa, Rusk | 44 min |
| Aug 15, 12:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 38 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.