Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 28, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Sep 2, 2002, 4:37 PM CDT for Rusk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 38 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, 4:37 PM CDT (21:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2002, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Rusk 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 |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 233 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.
941 WFUS53 KMPX 022137 TORMSP WIC107-022215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 437 PM CDT MON SEP 2 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... RUSK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST WISCONSIN * UNTIL 515 PM CDT * AT 437 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A TORNADO A FEW MILES EAST OF LADYSMITH. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... GLEN FLORA. HAWKINS. INGRAM. TONY. GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR LAT...LON 4553 9101 4535 9100 4533 9029 4556 9029 &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 11:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn, Pepin, Pierce, Saint Croix | 50 min |
| Sep 1, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Eau Claire | 47 min |
| Sep 2, 12:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn, Pepin | 40 min |
| Sep 2, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rusk | 65 min |
| Sep 2, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 48 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.