Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2001, 6:47 PM CDT for Price County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 43 min. 3 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
- Jun 11, 2001, 6:47 PM CDT (23:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2001, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Price County, WI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 7:16 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 M | Catawba, WI | Trees were blown down on U.S. Highway 8. |
| Jun 11, 7:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Kennan, WI | Trees were blown down. The wind speed is estimated. |
| Jun 11, 7:35 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 65 E | Catawba, WI | A machine shed was blown off its foundation. There was also roof and siding damage, and a round bale feeder was thrown 225 feet. Siding was blown off a mobile home. The wind speed is estimated. |
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
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 222 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 948 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Duluth, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 11, 2:50 PM CDT, 3 hours 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 2:50 PM CDT, 3 hours 57 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 250 PM CDT MON JUN 11 2001 FORECAST FOCUS WILL BE SEVERE THREAT THIS EVENING...THEN CONVECTION THROUGH REMAINDER OF FORECAST PERIODS. ETA AND AVN IN DECENT AGREEMENT...AND FOLLOWED THE ETA FOR MOST OF DETAILS. STRONGEST CELLS LOCATED IN SOUTHWEST CWA. SHOWERS FURTHER NORTH. AIRMASS HEATED UP EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON...WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER 70S TO LOWER 80S. BLOWOFF AND SHOWERS HAVE SINCE COOLED THEM OFF...EXCEPT IN NORTHWEST WISCONSIN. 30KT FLOW SEEN AT THE WDL PROFILER AT 850MB. THIS FEED OF HIGHER THETA-E AIR...AS WELL AS UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE WILL KEEP THREAT OF STORMS IN FORECAST THIS EVENING. BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE WILL BE ACROSS SOUTHERN ZONES. STORMS STARTING TO FIRE IN EVEN JUICIER AIR ACROSS SOUTHERN MINNESOTA...AND THIS MAY ROB OUR STORMS OF SOME ENERGY AND MOISTURE. WILL TIME ENDING OF CONVECTION WITH 850MB TROUGH...WHICH WOULD PUT FAR WESTERN ZONES IN ACTION ONLY INTO EARLY EVENING...AND EASTERN ZONES TIL SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT. BRIEF BREAK IN THE ACTION TUESDAY...EXCEPT SOUTHERN ZONES IN THE AFTERNOON. BETTER SHOT AT RAIN COMES TUESDAY NIGHT WITH LIFTING WARM FRONT. USED GUIDANCE...EXCEPT WENT A LITTLE WARMER ON WEDNESDAY IN NORTHWEST WISCONSIN...WHERE THERE MAY BE MORE SUN THAN MODELS FORECAST. .DLH...NONE. MELDE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 1:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cass | 67 min |
| Jun 11, 2:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Crow Wing | 41 min |
| Jun 11, 2:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Aitkin | 32 min |
| Jun 11, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Crow Wing | 38 min |
| Jun 11, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Aitkin | 53 min |
| Jun 11, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Burnett | 33 min |
| Jun 11, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Washburn | 47 min |
| Jun 11, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Sawyer | 59 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001
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.