Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 260, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2005, 5:57 AM CDT for Chippewa County, Rusk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 63 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
- Aug 8, 2005, 5:57 AM CDT (10:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2005, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Chippewa County, WI, Rusk County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 171 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 6:30 AM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 6 S Bruce, 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, 5:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 185 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 081058
SVRMPX
WIC017-107-081200-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0260.050808T1057Z-050808T1200Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
557 AM CDT MON AUG 8 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
RUSK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST WISCONSIN
CHIPPEWA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN
* UNTIL 700 AM CDT
* AT 555 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 23 MILES
WEST OF LADYSMITH...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTHEAST OF RICE LAKE...AND
MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LADYSMITH...
WEYERHAUSER...
ISLAND LAKE...
NEW AUBURN...
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 4556 9151 4532 9154 4517 9163 4505 9104
4546 9092
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS53 KMPX 081124
SVSMPX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
624 AM CDT MON AUG 8 2005
WIC017-107-081200-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0260.000000T0000Z-050808T1200Z/
RUSK WI-CHIPPEWA WI-
624 AM CDT MON AUG 8 2005
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 700 AM CDT FOR
CHIPPEWA AND RUSK COUNTIES...
AT 621 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BRUCE...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
LADYSMITH...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE ISLAND LAKE...WEYERHAEUSER...
TONY...SHELDON...LADYSMITH...INGRAM...HAWKINS...GLEN FLORA AND
CONRATH.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE
IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
LAT...LON 4556 9152 4532 9154 4522 9152 4523 9096
4552 9070
$$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, 5:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron, Dunn | 57 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 |
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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.