Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2005, 2:15 PM CDT for Barron County, Polk County, Saint Croix County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 60 min. 4 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 11, 2005, 2:15 PM CDT (19:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2005, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Barron County, WI, Polk County, WI, Saint Croix County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:16 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 11, 2:25 PM CDT | TORNADO | 1 N Emerald, WI | CONSIDERABLE DEBRIS REPORTED. |
| Jun 11, 2:37 PM CDT | TORNADO | 15 N Baldwin, WI | REPORTED BY AMBULANCE DRIVER |
| Jun 11, 2:52 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 4 Sw Turtle Lake, WI | |
| Jun 11, 2:56 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Almena, WI | CONSIDERABLE WIND DAMAGE |
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 11, 1:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -89 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 723 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 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 111915 SVRMPX WIC005-095-109-112015- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0092.050611T1915Z-050611T2015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 215 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... POLK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST WISCONSIN BARRON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST WISCONSIN ST. CROIX COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 315 PM CDT * AT 211 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 18 MILES SOUTH OF AMERY...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NEW RICHMOND...AND MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... AMERY... TURTLE LAKE... LAT...LON 4502 9255 4496 9230 4570 9187 4578 9224 $$ RJN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 2:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Barron, Polk, Saint Croix | 44 min |
| Jun 11, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Eau Claire | 45 min |
| Jun 11, 3:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Barron | 49 min |
| Jun 11, 3:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Saint Croix | 29 min |
| Jun 11, 3:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Barron, Dunn, Polk, Saint Croix | 44 min |
| Jun 11, 4:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Barron | 35 min |
| Jun 11, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Saint Croix | 42 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.