Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2007, 5:27 PM CDT for Barron County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 48 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
- May 23, 2007, 5:27 PM CDT (22:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2007, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Barron County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:30 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 811 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 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 232227 SVRMPX WIC005-232315- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0042.070523T2227Z-070523T2315Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 527 PM CDT WED MAY 23 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BARRON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST WISCONSIN... * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 525 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THE STORMS WERE LOCATED FROM 10 MILES WEST OF RICE LAKE... TO 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BARRON. THEY WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... CUMBERLAND... BARRON... CAMERON... CHETEK... RICE LAKE... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4559 9214 4523 9214 4522 9157 4564 9154 $$ DWE/TDK
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KMPX 232256 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 557 PM CDT WED MAY 23 2007 WIC005-232315- /O.CON.KMPX.SV.W.0042.000000T0000Z-070523T2315Z/ BARRON WI- 557 PM CDT WED MAY 23 2007 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR BARRON COUNTY... AT 555 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 4 MILES EAST OF RICE LAKE TO 7 MILES SOUTH OF CHETEK...AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. WINDS OF 60 TO 65 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE MIKANA...CANTON...AND CHETEK. LAT...LON 4559 9214 4523 9214 4522 9157 4564 9154 $$ DWE/TDK
000 WWUS53 KMPX 232312 SVSMPX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 611 PM CDT WED MAY 23 2007 WIC005-232321- /O.EXP.KMPX.SV.W.0042.000000T0000Z-070523T2315Z/ BARRON WI- 611 PM CDT WED MAY 23 2007 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR BARRON COUNTY EXPIRES AT 615 PM CDT... SEVERE STORMS WERE ABOUT TO MOVE OUT OF THE SOUTHEAST PART OF THE COUNTY...EAST OF CHETEK. HOWEVER...MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN THE AREA...REMAIN ALERT FOR POSSIBLE ADDITIONAL WARNINGS. LAT...LON 4559 9214 4523 9214 4522 9157 4564 9154 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Polk | 53 min |
| May 23, 4:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Polk | 38 min |
| May 23, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron | 66 min |
| May 23, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Saint Croix | 61 min |
| May 23, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pierce | 59 min |
| May 23, 4:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Polk | 27 min |
| May 23, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn | 63 min |
| May 23, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Rusk | 56 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 2007Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2007
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.