Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2000, 2:04 AM CDT for Pierce County, Saint Croix County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 41 min. 2 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
- Aug 26, 2000, 2:04 AM CDT (07:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2000, 2:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Pierce County, WI, Saint Croix County, WI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 2:20 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | River Falls, WI | Trees felled. |
| Aug 26, 2:55 AM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Ellsworth, 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 nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 723 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -258 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1416 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 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 260705 SVRMSP TTAA00 KMSP 260704 WIC093-109-260745- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 204 AM CDT SAT AUG 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ST. CROIX COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN PIERCE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 245 AM CDT * AT 204 AM CDT LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HUDSON...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF RIVER FALLS...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... WOODVILLE SPRING VALLEY ROBERTS RIVER FALLS HUDSON HAMMOND BALDWIN THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. & AT 200 AM...TREES WERE REPORTED DOWN IN THE HUDSON AREA. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 2:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pepin, Pierce | 46 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.