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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jul 8, 2000, 6:11 PM CDT for Polk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report 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, 6:11 PM CDT (23:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Polk County, WI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Clam Falls, WI | Touched down in open field, no damage incurred. Tornado originally touched down in Burnett county, from 1735-1740. |
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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 113 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.
859 WFUS53 KMPX 082312 TORMSP WIC095-090000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 611 PM CDT SAT JUL 8 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... POLK COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 611 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER CENTRAL BURNETT COUNTY...JUST NORTHWEST OF SIREN OR ABOUT 23 MILES NORTH OF BALSAM LAKE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... FREDERIC LEWIS CLAM FALLS MCKINLEY GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rusk | 55 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.