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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 139, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 11, 2000, 4:03 PM CDT for Rusk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 42 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 11, 2000, 4:03 PM CDT (21:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 11, 2000, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Rusk County, WI
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 207 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 112104 SVRMSP WIC107-112145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 403 PM CDT MON SEP 11 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RUSK COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 445 PM CDT * AT 403 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BRUCE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES WEST OF LADYSMITH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... TONY. LADYSMITH. GLEN FLORA. CONRATH. BRUCE. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 4551 9140 4532 9137 4535 9098 4588 9052
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, 3:13 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, 4:16 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.