Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2005, 4:14 AM CDT for Pierce County, Saint Croix County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 61 min. 3 reports 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
- Jun 8, 2005, 4:14 AM CDT (09:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2005, 5:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Pierce County, WI, Saint Croix County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 4:55 AM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 2 Sw Hammond, WI | |
| Jun 8, 4:55 AM CDT | HAIL 1 | 4 N Hager City, WI | |
| Jun 8, 5:10 AM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 4 E Bay City, WI | LARGE TREE DOWN OVER ROAD. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 1:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 395 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2261 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS53 KMPX 080916
SVRMPX
WIC093-109-081015-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0086.050608T0914Z-050608T1015Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
414 AM CDT WED JUN 8 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
ST. CROIX COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN
PIERCE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN
* UNTIL 515 AM CDT
* AT 409 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE STORMS WAS LOCATED FROM NEAR WHITE
BEAR LAKE TO HASTINGS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 40
MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
RIVER FALLS...
NEW RICHMOND...
ELLSWORTH...
BALDWIN...
LAT...LON 4457 9247 4460 9217 4520 9220 4520 9271
4474 9272
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn | 34 min |
| Jun 7, 7:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Dunn | 5 hr |
| Jun 7, 8:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Eau Claire | 4 hr |
| Jun 8, 5:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn, Pepin, Pierce | 55 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.