Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this tornado warning at Sep 2, 2002, 4:57 PM CDT for Price County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 33 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
- Sep 2, 2002, 4:57 PM CDT (21:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2002, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Price County, WI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 5:10 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Kennan, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Sep 2, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -474 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1493 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
908 WFUS53 KDLH 022157 TORDLH WIC099-022230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 455 PM CDT MON SEP 2 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... PRICE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 530 PM CDT * AT 455 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 16 MILES WEST OF OGEMA...OR ABOUT 36 MILES SOUTH OF PARK FALLS...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THIS TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... EXTREME SOUTHWEST PRICE COUNTY THROUGH 515 PM... OGEMA AROUND 510 PM... SPIRIT AROUND 525 PM... GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR A TORNADO HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM EARLIER IN LADYSMITH. .END LAT...LON 4553 9068 4535 9072 4526 8998 4548 8994 CLC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 7:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DLH | Burnett | 4 hr |
| Sep 2, 1:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Douglas | 57 min |
| Sep 2, 2:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Bayfield | 64 min |
| Sep 2, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Ashland | 58 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.