Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 135, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 10, 2000, 9:43 PM CDT for Chippewa County, Dunn County, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 62 min. 4 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
- Sep 10, 2000, 9:43 PM CDT (02:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 10, 2000, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Chippewa County, WI, Dunn County, WI, Eau Claire County, WI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 9:50 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Eau Claire, WI | |
| Sep 10, 10:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Eau Claire, WI | |
| Sep 10, 10:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Cleghorn, WI | |
| Sep 10, 10:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Eau Claire, 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, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2354 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 110248 SVRMSP WIC017-033-035-110345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 943 PM CDT SUN SEP 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CHIPPEWA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN DUNN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 1045 PM CDT * AT 943 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL...AND TORRENTIAL RAINS...ABOUT 6 MILES NORTH OF MENOMONIE...8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EAU CLAIRE AND 4 MILES NORTH OF CORNELL. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... MENOMONIE CHIPPEWA FALLS BLOOMER FALL CREEK HOLCOMBE ELK MOUND LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn, Saint Croix | 46 min |
| Sep 10, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 42 min |
| Sep 10, 9:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Eau Claire | 41 min |
| Sep 10, 9:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pierce, Saint Croix | 53 min |
| Sep 10, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Eau Claire | 32 min |
| Sep 10, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Eau Claire | 48 min |
| Sep 11, 12:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Eau Claire | 2 hr |
| Sep 11, 1:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Dunn, Pierce | 81 min |
| Sep 11, 2:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire, Pierce | 2 hr |
| Sep 11, 3:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn, Pierce, Saint Croix | 47 min |
| Sep 11, 3:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dunn | 36 min |
| Sep 11, 3:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Eau Claire | 49 min |
| Sep 11, 3:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dunn | 19 min |
| Sep 11, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rusk | 42 min |
| Sep 11, 4:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dunn | 14 min |
| Sep 11, 4:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Eau Claire | 49 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.