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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Twin Cities, MN

August 14, 2000Barron County, Wisconsin

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Aug 14, 2000, 10:11 PM CDT for Barron County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 34 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, 10:11 PM CDT (03:11 UTC)
Expired: Aug 14, 2000, 10:45 PM CDT
In force: 34 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 03:14 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, 10:50 PM CDT	Hail 1	Rice Lake, 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, 3.2 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KMPX 150312
TORMSP

WIC005-150345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
1011 PM CDT MON AUG 14 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BARRON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 1045 PM CDT

* AT 1011 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  POSSIBLE TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BARRON...OR ABOUT 9 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF RICE LAKE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...  
  DALLAS
  CHETEK
  CAMERON
  BARRON

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, 9:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Polk	36 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

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.