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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Duluth, MN

April 18, 2002Price County, Wisconsin

NWS Duluth, MN issued this tornado warning at Apr 18, 2002, 6:13 PM CDT for Price County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Apr 18, 2002, 6:13 PM CDT (23:13 UTC)
Expired: Apr 18, 2002, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Duluth, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Price County, WI

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 191 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 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
Apr 18, 6:29 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Catawba, WI	A tornado touched down briefly in an isolated wooded area.

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, 11.2 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.

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: 1774 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 460 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 766 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KDLH 182313
TORDLH
WIC099-192345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING ...CORRECTED EXPIRATION TIME.
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
609 PM CDT THU APR 18 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  PRICE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT

* AT 609 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST
  OF PHILLIPS...OR ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTH OF PARK FALLS...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THIS TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  PHILLIPS AROUND 615 PM CDT...

GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR

THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT FOR PRICE COUNTY.

.END

LAT...LON 4569 9060 4554 9047 4576 8986 4595 9002

SHIMON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 18, 2:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Burnett	57 min
Apr 18, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Price	47 min
Apr 18, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Price	45 min
Apr 18, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Iron	34 min
Apr 18, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Price	60 min
Apr 18, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Sawyer	38 min
Apr 18, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Iron	59 min
Apr 18, 6:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DLH	Price	35 min
Apr 18, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Iron	59 min
Apr 18, 6:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DLH	Iron	56 min
Apr 18, 6:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DLH	Price	16 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.