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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 287, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2005, 3:51 PM CDT for Dunn County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 54 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 9, 2005, 3:51 PM CDT (20:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2005, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Dunn County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:52 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 9, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Aug 9, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 2206 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -140 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1490 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 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 092052 SVRMPX WIC033-092145- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0287.050809T2051Z-050809T2145Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 351 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DUNN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 445 PM CDT * AT 349 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 17 MILES NORTH OF MENOMONIE TO 23 MILES WEST OF MENOMONIE...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MENOMONIE... BOYCEVILLE... DOWNSVILLE... COLFAX... STAY INDOORS...AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4520 9214 4485 9212 4485 9168 4519 9167 $$ DWE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 1:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron, Rusk | 62 min |
| Aug 9, 2:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 30 min |
| Aug 9, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pierce, Saint Croix | 59 min |
| Aug 9, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 57 min |
| Aug 9, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pepin, Pierce | 46 min |
| Aug 9, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn, Eau Claire | 64 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.