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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Aug 14, 2000, 9:54 PM CDT for Polk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 36 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
- Aug 14, 2000, 9:54 PM CDT (02:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2000, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Polk County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:54 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 14, 10:05 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Frederic, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 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
- 1622 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -190 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1708 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 361 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KMPX 150254 TORMSP WIC095-150330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 954 PM CDT MON AUG 14 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... POLK COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 1030 PM CDT * AT 954 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER FREDERIC...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTH OF BALSAM LAKE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... MILLTOWN LUCK FREDERIC 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron, Rusk | 65 min |
| Aug 14, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Rusk | 30 min |
| Aug 14, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Polk | 35 min |
| Aug 14, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Rusk | 43 min |
| Aug 14, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron | 46 min |
| Aug 14, 8:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Polk | 33 min |
| Aug 14, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron | 46 min |
| Aug 14, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rusk | 43 min |
| Aug 14, 10:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Barron | 34 min |
| Aug 14, 10:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Barron, Rusk | 3 hr |
| Aug 14, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron, Rusk | 59 min |
| Aug 14, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Polk | 59 min |
| Aug 14, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron, Chippewa, Rusk | 44 min |
| Aug 15, 12:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 38 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.