Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 208, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 2004, 11:19 PM CDT for Pierce County, Saint Croix County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 56 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
- Jul 31, 2004, 11:19 PM CDT (04:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2004, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Pierce County, WI, Saint Croix County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 465 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1194 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 395 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 010419 SVRMPX WIC093-109-010515- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1118 PM CDT SAT JUL 31 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ST. CROIX COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN PIERCE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 1215 AM CDT * AT 1114 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 12 MILES WEST OF RIVER FALLS...AND MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ELLSWORTH. RIVER FALLS. MARTEL. BELDENVILLE. ROBERTS. BALDWIN. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4497 9274 4477 9275 4466 9216 4495 9217 $$ RAH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 10:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn, Pierce | 42 min |
| Jul 31, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn, Eau Claire, Pepin | 64 min |
| Aug 1, 12:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire | 59 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004
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.