Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2000, 5:39 PM CDT for Barron County, Polk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 66 min. 7 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, 5:39 PM CDT (22:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2000, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barron County, WI, Polk County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 6:25 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Cumberland, WI | |
| Aug 8, 6:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Milltown, WI | Trees toppled. |
| Aug 8, 6:36 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Frederic, WI | |
| Aug 8, 6:45 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Cumberland, WI | |
| Aug 8, 6:50 PM CDT | Hail 2.5 | Cameron, WI | |
| Aug 8, 6:55 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Clam Falls, WI | |
| Aug 8, 6:55 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Rice Lake, WI | Windows broken, damage to houses. |
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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 132 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 082240 SVRMSP WIC005-095-082345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 539 PM CDT TUE AUG 8 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BARRON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN NORTHERN POLK COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 539 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 34 MILES NORTHWEST OF HAUGEN...OR ABOUT 27 MILES NORTH OF BALSAM LAKE... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... CLAM FALLS MCKINLEY CUMBERLAND RICE LAKE HAUGEN 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, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rusk | 48 min |
| Aug 8, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rusk | 33 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 |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.