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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 7, 2005Chippewa County, Wisconsin

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 2005, 5:38 PM CDT for Chippewa County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 67 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: Jun 7, 2005, 5:38 PM CDT (22:38 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 2005, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Chippewa County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:39 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 7, 5:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 179 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 677 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -219 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1465 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KMPX 072239
SVRMPX
WIC017-072345-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0050.050607T2238Z-050607T2345Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
538 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CHIPPEWA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT

* AT 531 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...   
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS. THIS STORM WAS     
  LOCATED 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF BLOOMER...OR ABOUT 19 MILES NORTHWEST 
  OF CHIPPEWA FALLS...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  BLOOMER...
  NEW AUBURN...
  JIM FALLS...
  CORNELL...
  HOLCOMBE...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF A TORNADO
IS SPOTTED... ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY
STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.

LAT...LON 4520 9164 4506 9165 4499 9094 4524 9093

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 8:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Saint Croix	45 min
Jun 7, 8:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Pierce	34 min
Jun 7, 3:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Polk	43 min
Jun 7, 4:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Barron	53 min
Jun 7, 4:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Barron	27 min
Jun 7, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dunn	48 min
Jun 7, 5:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Dunn	25 min
Jun 7, 5:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Barron	35 min
Jun 7, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Pierce	66 min
Jun 7, 5:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Dunn	45 min
Jun 7, 5:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Rusk	55 min
Jun 7, 6:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Chippewa	40 min
Jun 7, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Barron	50 min
Jun 7, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dunn	28 min
Jun 7, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Rusk	35 min
Jun 7, 6:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Eau Claire	57 min
Jun 7, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa	30 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 2005 Every 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.