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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jul 26, 2000, 12:42 PM CDT for Pierce County, Saint Croix County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 33 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 26, 2000, 12:42 PM CDT (17:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 2000, 1:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Pierce County, WI, Saint Croix County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 1:02 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Hudson, WI | Brief touchdown in cornfield. No damage reported. |
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, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 196 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 803 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
574 WFUS53 KMPX 261742 TORMSP WIC093-109-261815- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1242 PM CDT WED JUL 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN ST. CROIX COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN PIERCE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 115 PM CDT * AT 1242 PM CDT LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES NORTH OF RIVER FALLS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... SPRING VALLEY ROBERTS RIVER FALLS ELLSWORTH 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 25, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron, Polk | 52 min |
| Jul 25, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rusk | 52 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.