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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 54, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 18, 2002, 5:34 PM CDT for Rusk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 26 min. 8 reports 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, 5:34 PM CDT (22:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 18, 2002, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 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), 178 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:35 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, 5:34 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Phillips, WI | |
| Apr 18, 5:40 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Hawkins, WI | |
| Apr 18, 5:42 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Phillips, WI | |
| Apr 18, 5:46 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Phillips, WI | |
| Apr 18, 5:46 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Phillips, WI | |
| Apr 18, 6:00 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Phillips, WI | |
| Apr 18, 6:06 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Phillips, WI | |
| Apr 18, 6:06 PM CDT | Hail 2 | Phillips, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 239 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1064 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 745 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 912 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 182234 SVRMSP WIC107-182300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 534 PM CDT THU APR 18 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RUSK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST WISCONSIN * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 534 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF INGRAM...OR ABOUT 15 MILES EAST OF LADYSMITH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... GLEN FLORA. HAWKINS. INGRAM. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 4557 9098 4539 9091 4566 9029 4584 9054
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 3:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pierce, Saint Croix | 53 min |
| Apr 18, 4:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron, Dunn | 41 min |
| Apr 18, 5:24 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dunn | 21 min |
| Apr 18, 5:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron | 24 min |
| Apr 18, 5:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 33 min |
| Apr 18, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 63 min |
| Apr 18, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Eau Claire, Pepin | 40 min |
| Apr 18, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn | 32 min |
| Apr 18, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Eau Claire | 63 min |
| Apr 18, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Eau Claire | 63 min |
| Apr 18, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 31 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.