Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2008, 6:28 PM CDT for Chippewa County, Rusk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 62 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 25, 2008, 6:28 PM CDT (23:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2008, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Chippewa County, WI, Rusk County, WI
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 25, 2:04 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -266 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 641 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -3.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 252329 SVRMPX WIC017-107-260030- /O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0034.080525T2328Z-080526T0030Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 628 PM CDT SUN MAY 25 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RUSK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST WISCONSIN... NORTHERN CHIPPEWA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN... * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 625 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE DAMAGING HAIL UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WEYERHAEUSER...OR ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTH OF CHETEK...AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... WEYERHAEUSER... BRUCE... LADYSMITH... SHELDON... ISLAND LAKE... CONRATH... HOLCOMBE... THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...WHICH CAN SIGNIFICANTLY DAMAGE WINDOWS...SIDING AND VEHICLES. DAMAGING WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED...WHICH WILL UPROOT TREES AND DOWN POWER LINES. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 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. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA AND NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN. LAT...LON 4559 9092 4520 9094 4519 9154 4555 9153 TIME...MOT...LOC 2328Z 261DEG 37KT 4528 9162 $$ RAH/TRH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Polk | 51 min |
| May 25, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Polk, Saint Croix | 47 min |
| May 25, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron | 48 min |
| May 25, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Polk, Saint Croix | 58 min |
| May 25, 5:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Barron, Dunn | 40 min |
| May 25, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn | 51 min |
| May 25, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn, Pierce | 49 min |
| May 25, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire | 54 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.