Alert archive / Wisconsin / Special Weather Statements in 2011
Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at May 28, 2011, 4:31 PM CDT for Dunn County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 44 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 28, 2011, 4:31 PM CDT (21:31 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2011, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
County Dunn County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 918 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
627 WWUS83 KMPX 282131 SPSMPX SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 431 PM CDT SAT MAY 28 2011 WIZ025-027-028-282215- CHIPPEWA-DUNN-EAU CLAIRE- 431 PM CDT SAT MAY 28 2011 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH CHIPPEWA...DUNN AND EAU CLAIRE COUNTIES THROUGH 515 PM CDT... AT 429 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR MENOMONIE...OR 9 MILES SOUTH OF TAINTER LAKE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. HAIL UP TO DIME SIZE IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... MENOMONIE. TAINTER LAKE. ELK MOUND. EAU CLAIRE. LAKE HALLIE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA. && LAT...LON 4511 9146 4483 9136 4476 9198 4493 9204 TIME...MOT...LOC 2130Z 256DEG 25KT 4487 9189 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 1:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Nicollet, Redwood, Sibley | 7 min |
| May 28, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Nicollet, Redwood, Renville, Sibley | 34 min |
| May 28, 2:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Dakota, Le Sueur, McLeod, Rice, Scott and 1 more | 44 min |
| May 28, 2:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Carver, Scott, Sibley | 36 min |
| May 28, 3:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Carver, Le Sueur, Rice, Scott, Sibley | 39 min |
| May 28, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue, Rice, Scott | 45 min |
| May 28, 3:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue, Rice, Scott | 33 min |
| May 28, 4:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Dakota | 48 min |
| May 28, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue | 40 min |
| May 28, 4:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Kanabec, Mille Lacs | 47 min |
| May 28, 6:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Rice | 42 min |
| May 28, 5:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Pepin, Pierce | 44 min |
| May 28, 5:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Pepin | 49 min |
| May 28, 6:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Eau Claire | 30 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.