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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 154, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2002, 9:08 PM CDT for Rusk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 52 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
- Jun 25, 2002, 9:08 PM CDT (02:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2002, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Rusk County, WI
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 174 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 4448 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1086 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.4
- Supercell composite
- 16.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 260208 SVRMSP WIC107-260300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 908 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RUSK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST WISCONSIN * UNTIL 1000 PM CDT * AT 908 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WEYERHAEUSER...OR ABOUT 18 MILES SOUTHEAST OF RICE LAKE...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... BRUCE. WEYERHAEUSER. LADYSMITH. CONRATH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH LARGE HAIL...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4539 9153 4530 9151 4530 9099 4555 9122
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Polk, Saint Croix | 30 min |
| Jun 25, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 41 min |
| Jun 25, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron, Dunn, Polk, Saint Croix | 56 min |
| Jun 25, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 60 min |
| Jun 25, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pierce | 38 min |
| Jun 25, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn | 46 min |
| Jun 25, 9:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 4 hr |
| Jun 25, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pierce | 41 min |
| Jun 25, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Eau Claire, Pepin | 37 min |
| Jun 25, 10:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Dunn | 3 hr |
| Jun 25, 10:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Eau Claire, Pepin | 3 hr |
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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.