Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 231, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2004, 6:44 PM CDT for Barron County, Rusk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 61 min. 4 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
- Aug 8, 2004, 6:44 PM CDT (23:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2004, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Barron County, WI, Rusk County, WI
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:43 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 6:45 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Cumberland, WI | 3/4 HAIL REPORTED. |
| Aug 8, 6:45 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Cumberland, WI | 3/4 HAIL REPORTED. |
| Aug 8, 6:54 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 1 E Cumberland, WI | |
| Aug 8, 6:54 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 1 E Cumberland, WI |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 362 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -202 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1170 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 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 082344 SVRMPX WIC005-107-090045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 644 PM CDT SUN AUG 8 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BARRON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST WISCONSIN RUSK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST WISCONSIN * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 642 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF BARRON...OR ABOUT 11 MILES WEST OF RICE LAKE...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BARRON. RICE LAKE. LAT...LON 4558 9209 4540 9209 4535 9139 4562 9139 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Dunn | 55 min |
| Aug 8, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pierce | 35 min |
| Aug 8, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Dunn | 35 min |
| Aug 8, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 54 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.