Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 2000, 6:20 PM CDT for Rusk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 55 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 8, 2000, 6:20 PM CDT (23:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2000, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rusk County, WI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 6:55 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Bruce, WI | |
| Jul 8, 6:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Bruce, WI | Trees down. |
| Jul 8, 7:20 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Weyerhaeuser, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 2243 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -143 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 972 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 262 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 7.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 082320 SVRMSP WIC107-090015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 620 PM CDT SAT JUL 8 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RUSK COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 620 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER EXTREME NORTHWESTERN RUSK COUNTY...OR ABOUT 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF LADYSMITH...MOVING SOUTH TO SOUTHEASTAT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... LADYSMITH WEYERHAUSER BRUCE GLEN FLORA ISLAND LAKE THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. HEAVY RAINS MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS AS THEY MAY BE WASHED OUT. Q
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 6:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Polk | 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.