Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 258, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2005, 5:18 AM CDT for Barron County, Dunn County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 57 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
- Aug 8, 2005, 5:18 AM CDT (10:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2005, 6:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Barron County, WI, Dunn County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 3207 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1389 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 7.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 081018 SVRMPX WIC005-033-081115- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0258.050808T1018Z-050808T1115Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 518 AM CDT MON AUG 8 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BARRON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST WISCONSIN DUNN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 615 AM CDT * AT 516 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CONNORSVILLE...OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTHEAST OF AMERY... AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... PRAIRIE FARM... BOYCEVILLE... RIDGELAND... HILLSDALE... WHEELER... DALLAS... CHETEK... SAND CREEK... COLFAX... 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 4532 9215 4499 9213 4494 9171 4531 9162 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 081039 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 538 AM CDT MON AUG 8 2005 WIC005-033-081115- /O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0258.000000T0000Z-050808T1115Z/ BARRON WI-DUNN WI- 538 AM CDT MON AUG 8 2005 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 615 AM CDT FOR DUNN AND BARRON COUNTIES... AT 537 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM WAS NEAR HILLSDALE AND DALLAS...ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF RICE LAKE...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE SAND CREEK...HILLSDALE... CONNORSVILLE...WHEELER...TAINTER LAKE...RIDGELAND...PRAIRIE FARM... DALLAS...COLFAX AND BOYCEVILLE. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4532 9215 4499 9213 4494 9171 4531 9162 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 5:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Saint Croix | 55 min |
| Aug 8, 5:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Rusk | 63 min |
| Aug 8, 6:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron | 61 min |
| Aug 8, 6:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rusk | 48 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005
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.