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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 2000, 12:22 AM CDT for Chippewa County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 38 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 15, 2000, 12:22 AM CDT (05:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 2000, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chippewa County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:23 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, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 184 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 150524 SVRMSP WIC017-150600- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1222 AM CDT TUE AUG 15 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CHIPPEWA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 100 AM CDT * AT 1222 AM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF CORNELL...OR ABOUT 19 MILES NORTH OF CHIPPEWA FALLS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... STANLEY CORNELL JIM FALLS CHIPPEWA FALLS 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, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Polk | 59 min |
| Aug 14, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron, Chippewa, Rusk | 44 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.