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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Twin Cities, MN

July 7, 2000Pierce County, Wisconsin

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 2000, 11:36 AM CDT for Pierce County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 54 min. 3 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
Jul 7, 2000, 11:36 AM CDT (16:36 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 2000, 12:30 PM CDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Whole counties

County Pierce County, WI

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 7, 12:05 PM CDTHail 0.88River Falls, WIRed Wing Republican newspaper reported an approximately two mile wide, 20 mile wide swath of destruction to crops began in the northwest portion of Pierce county (about 3 miles west of River Falls) and ended just north of Hager City. The vast majority of t
Jul 7, 12:05 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 55 ERiver Falls, WIScattered trees down. Minor damage to barns and outbuildings.
Jul 7, 12:15 PM CDTHail 1Bay City, WIQuarter inch hail covered the ground.

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, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 94 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2000-07-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 50 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2000-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 249 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
50 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-428 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
589 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
249 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
367 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.3

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 7, 11:30 AM CDTTornado WarningMPXSaint Croix45 min
Jul 7, 12:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXPepin46 min
Jul 7, 1:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXPepin16 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.