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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 265, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2005, 6:59 AM CDT for Rusk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 48 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, 6:59 AM CDT (11:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2005, 7:47 AM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Rusk County, WI
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:59 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 5:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 197 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 081159 SVRMPX WIC107-081300- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0265.050808T1159Z-050808T1300Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 659 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 * UNTIL 800 AM CDT * AT 656 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF LADYSMITH...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... LADYSMITH... 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 4562 9153 4550 9153 4536 9101 4563 9084 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMPX 081247 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 747 AM CDT MON AUG 8 2005 WIC107-081257- /O.CAN.KMPX.SV.W.0265.000000T0000Z-050808T1300Z/ RUSK WI- 747 AM CDT MON AUG 8 2005 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR RUSK COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE STORMS HAVE WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LEVELS ACROSS THE COUNTY. THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. LAT...LON 4562 9153 4550 9153 4536 9101 4563 9084 $$
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, 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 |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.