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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 403, NWS Twin Cities, MN

September 30, 2007Polk County, Wisconsin

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 30, 2007, 3:27 AM CDT for Polk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 33 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
Sep 30, 2007, 3:27 AM CDT (08:27 UTC)
Expired
Sep 30, 2007, 4:00 AM CDT
In force
33 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), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:30 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 nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 136 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, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 2007-09-30Temperature 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, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 2007-09-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 434 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
1567 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
434 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
705 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.5

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KMPX 300827
SVRMPX
WIC095-300900-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0403.070930T0827Z-070930T0900Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
327 AM CDT SUN SEP 30 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 400 AM CDT

* AT 324 AM 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 3 MILES EAST OF LUCK...OR
  ABOUT 8 MILES NORTH OF BALSAM LAKE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55
  MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  CLAM FALLS...

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 4563 9216 4558 9216 4541 9237 4555 9262
      4573 9236 4574 9216 4571 9214 4564 9214
TIME...MOT...LOC 0827Z 220DEG 48KT 4560 9236

$$
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS53 KMPX 300849
SVSMPX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
346 AM CDT SUN SEP 30 2007

WIC095-300900-
/O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0403.000000T0000Z-070930T0900Z/
POLK WI-
346 AM CDT SUN SEP 30 2007

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 AM CDT
FOR POLK COUNTY...

AT 342 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING 
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THE STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR 
MILLTOWN...AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE CLAM FALLS...MILLTOWN...
LUCK...FREDERIC AND BALSAM LAKE.

LAT...LON 4563 9216 4558 9216 4541 9237 4555 9262
      4573 9236 4574 9216 4571 9214 4564 9214
TIME...MOT...LOC 0846Z 220DEG 48KT 4579 9212

$$

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.