Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this tornado warning at Aug 11, 2002, 3:51 PM CDT for Burnett County, Washburn County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 54 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 11, 2002, 3:51 PM CDT (20:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 2002, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Burnett County, WI, Washburn County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 435 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -168 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1352 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
651 WFUS53 KDLH 112051 TORDLH WIC013-129-112145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 350 PM CDT SUN AUG 11 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BURNETT COUNTY IN NORTHWEST WISCONSIN... WASHBURN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST WISCONSIN... * UNTIL 445 PM CDT * AT 350 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTH OF HERTEL...OR ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF RICE LAKE...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THIS TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... SHELL LAKE AROUND 425 PM... SARONA AROUND 440 PM... THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME AREA UNTIL 445 PM. GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR .END LAT...LON 4583 9220 4564 9218 4565 9165 4589 9168 SHIMON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 2:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Burnett | 53 min |
| Aug 11, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Burnett, Washburn | 65 min |
| Aug 11, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Sawyer | 54 min |
| Aug 11, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Price | 66 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.