Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2000, 4:12 PM CDT for Rusk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 48 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
- Aug 8, 2000, 4:12 PM CDT (21:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2000, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rusk County, WI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 4:50 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Ladysmith, WI | Golfball to baseball size hail throughout the city. Widespread windblown hail caused damage to windows, houses, vehicles. |
| Aug 8, 4:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Ladysmith, WI | Scattered trees down throughout city. |
| Aug 8, 5:05 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Ladysmith, 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, 9.2 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1313 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 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 082113 SVRMSP WIC107-082200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 412 PM CDT TUE AUG 8 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RUSK COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 500 PM CDT * AT 412 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF BRUCE...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF RICE LAKE... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... TONY LADYSMITH GLEN FLORA CONRATH BRUCE THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 12:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn, Saint Croix | 44 min |
| Aug 8, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rusk | 33 min |
| Aug 8, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron, Polk | 66 min |
| Aug 8, 6:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Barron | 23 min |
| Aug 8, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron, Chippewa, Polk, Rusk | 61 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.