Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 39, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Sep 11, 2000, 3:56 PM CDT for Dunn County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 19 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
- Sep 11, 2000, 3:56 PM CDT (20:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 11, 2000, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dunn County, WI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 4:10 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Elk Mound, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 277 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -297 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1331 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KMPX 112057 TORMSP WIC033-112115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 356 PM CDT MON SEP 11 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DUNN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 415 PM CDT * AT 356 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF COLFAX...OR ABOUT 9 MILES EAST OF MENOMONIE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... TAINTER LAKE. ELK MOUND. COLFAX. GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! THIS WARNING RE@PLACES THE TORNADO WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR DUNN COUNTY UNTIL 4 PM.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn, Saint Croix | 46 min |
| Sep 10, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 42 min |
| Sep 10, 9:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Eau Claire | 41 min |
| Sep 10, 9:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pierce, Saint Croix | 53 min |
| Sep 10, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire | 62 min |
| Sep 10, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Eau Claire | 32 min |
| Sep 10, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Eau Claire | 48 min |
| Sep 11, 12:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Eau Claire | 2 hr |
| Sep 11, 1:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Dunn, Pierce | 81 min |
| Sep 11, 2:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire, Pierce | 2 hr |
| Sep 11, 3:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn, Pierce, Saint Croix | 47 min |
| Sep 11, 3:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dunn | 36 min |
| Sep 11, 3:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Eau Claire | 49 min |
| Sep 11, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rusk | 42 min |
| Sep 11, 4:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dunn | 14 min |
| Sep 11, 4:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Eau Claire | 49 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.