Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 138, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 11, 2000, 3:13 PM CDT for Dunn County, Pierce County, Saint Croix County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 11, 2000, 3:13 PM CDT (20:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 11, 2000, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Dunn County, WI, Pierce County, WI, Saint Croix County, WI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 3:48 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Menomonie, 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 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 277 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -297 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1331 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 112014 SVRMSP WIC033-093-109-112100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 313 PM CDT MON SEP 11 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEAST ST. CROIX COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN DUNN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN NORTHEAST PIERCE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 400 PM CDT * AT 313 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL 11 MILES WEST OF SPRING VALLEY...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH OF ELLSWORTH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. ANOTHER SEVERE STORM WAS JUST SOUTH OF GLENWOOD CITY. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... TAINTER LAKE GLENWOOD CITY MENOMONIE KNAPP THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LzITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 4484 9260 4471 9241 4496 9171 4521 9194
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, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire | 62 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, 3:24 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 |
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.