Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 30, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Aug 8, 2000, 6:22 PM CDT for Barron County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 23 min. 4 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, 6:22 PM CDT (23:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2000, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Barron County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:26 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, 6:45 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Cumberland, WI | |
| Aug 8, 6:50 PM CDT | Hail 2.5 | Cameron, WI | |
| Aug 8, 6:55 PM CDT | Hail 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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 152 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 WFUS53 KMPX 082323 TORMSP WIC005-082345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 622 PM CDT TUE AUG 8 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BARRON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 622 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CUMBERLAND...OR ABOUT 15 MILES WEST OF RICE LAKE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... RICE LAKE CUMBERLAND CAMERON BARRON THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR BARRON COUNTY. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron, Polk | 66 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.