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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 20, 2007Polk County, Wisconsin

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2007, 5:14 PM CDT for Polk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report 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 20, 2007, 5:14 PM CDT (22:14 UTC)
Expired
Jun 20, 2007, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Polk County, WI

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:14 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 20, 5:25 PM CDTHAIL 0.754 E Milltown, WI

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 20, 2:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 354 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, International Fa, MN at 12:00Z on 2007-06-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, International Fa, MN at 12:00Z on 2007-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 114 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1400 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
114 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
164 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KMPX 202214
SVRMPX
WIC095-202300-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0121.070620T2214Z-070620T2300Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
514 PM CDT WED JUN 20 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  POLK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST WISCONSIN...

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 510 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN
  EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES WEST OF LUCK...OR
  ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF BALSAM LAKE...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25
  MPH. ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHERN CHISAGO COUNTY WILL 
  BE MOVING INTO THE SOUTHWESTERN CORNER OF POLK COUNTY...NEAR       
  OSCEOLA...BY 545 PM.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  LUCK...
  BALSAM LAKE...
  AMERY...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE
WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE
SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED.

LAT...LON 4565 9265 4539 9263 4530 9271 4522 9273
      4522 9217 4555 9217

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KAT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 3:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXRusk45 min
Jun 20, 5:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBarron62 min
Jun 20, 6:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXPolk57 min
Jun 20, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXRusk60 min
Jun 20, 6:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBarron63 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.