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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 130, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 16, 2001Rusk County, Wisconsin

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2001, 4:11 PM CDT for Rusk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 34 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 16, 2001, 4:11 PM CDT (21:11 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2001, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Rusk County, WI

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 185 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:11 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
Jun 16, 4:20 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Ladysmith, WI	Awning torn off a house.
Jun 16, 4:20 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Ladysmith, 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 nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 237 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1549 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KMPX 162111
SVRMSP
WIC107-162145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
411 PM CDT SAT JUN 16 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  RUSK COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 445 PM CDT

* AT 411 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS 8 MILES WEST OF LADYSMITH...MOVING
  EAST AT 55 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  TONY.
  LADYSMITH.
  INGRAM.
  HAWKINS.
  GLEN FLORA.
  CONRATH.
  BRUCE.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS...STAY INDOORS AWAY 
FROM WINDOWS. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF WIND DAMAGE. 

LAT...LON 4555 9122 4537 9117 4547 8998 4571 9003

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 2:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Barron, Polk	36 min
Jun 16, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Pepin, Pierce	37 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.