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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 169, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 27, 2001Rusk County, Wisconsin

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2001, 4:40 PM CDT for Rusk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 27, 2001, 4:40 PM CDT (21:40 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 2001, 5:15 PM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Whole counties

County Rusk County, WI

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 173 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 206 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2001-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 462 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2001-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -56 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
462 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-88 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1493 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-35 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 272141
SVRMSP

WIC107-272215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
440 PM CDT WED JUN 27 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 515 PM CDT

* AT 440 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE
  HAIL 5 MILES SOUTH OF WEYERHAEUSER...OR ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  LADYSMITH...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 5 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  WEYERHAEUSER.
  ISLAND LAKE.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SEVERE
THUNDERSTOBRMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE 
WARNING. HEAVY RAINS MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND 
UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS AS THEY
MAY BE WASHED OUT.

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.