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 Aug 2, 2011, 4:17 AM CDT for Barron County, Polk County, Rusk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 58 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
- Aug 2, 2011, 4:17 AM CDT (09:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2011, 5:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Barron County, WI, Polk County, WI, Rusk County, WI
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:19 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 5:05 AM CDT | TSTM WND GST 59 | 6 Wnw Rice Lake, WI |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -595 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1515 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 308 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 808 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 9.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
637
WWUS83 KMPX 020917
SPSMPX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
417 AM CDT TUE AUG 2 2011
WIZ014>016-021015-
BARRON-POLK-RUSK-
417 AM CDT TUE AUG 2 2011
...GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN DEVELOPING OVER BARRON...POLK AND
RUSK COUNTIES THROUGH 515 AM CDT...
AT 414 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS FROM FREDERICK THROUGH HAUGEN TO NEAR GLEN FLORA. THE
STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
WINDS UP TO 50 MPH AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE
STORMS.
* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
FREDERIC.
LUCK.
BARRONETT.
CUMBERLAND.
RICE LAKE.
LADYSMITH.
GLEN FLORA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THE GUSTY WINDS WILL BE CAPABLE OF KNOCKING DOWN SMALL TREES...TREE
LIMBS...AND POWERLINES. SEEK SAFE SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
&&
LAT...LON 4539 9067 4525 9262 4565 9265 4565 9254
4573 9253 4572 9215 4565 9214 4564 9072
TIME...MOT...LOC 0913Z 265DEG 35KT 4562 9241
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 12:00 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MPX | Todd | 57 hr |
| Aug 2, 5:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift, Yellow Medicine | 64 min |
| Aug 2, 6:06 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Pope, Stevens | 54 min |
| Aug 2, 6:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Pope, Stearns, Swift | 51 min |
| Aug 2, 6:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Meeker, Swift | 64 min |
| Aug 2, 7:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker, Sherburne, Stearns, Wright | 67 min |
| Aug 2, 7:24 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Benton, Carver, Isanti, McLeod, Sherburne, Sibley and 1 more | 36 min |
| Aug 2, 7:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Stearns | 51 min |
| Aug 2, 7:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Hennepin, Isanti, Ramsey, Sherburne, Wright | 48 min |
| Aug 2, 8:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Isanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs | 55 min |
| Aug 2, 8:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Chisago, Isanti, Washington | 74 min |
| Aug 1, 9:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Barron, Chippewa | 81 min |
| Aug 1, 10:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Rusk | 54 min |
| Aug 2, 3:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Rusk | 46 min |
| Aug 2, 4:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron, Polk, Rusk | 54 min |
| Aug 2, 4:44 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MPX | Barron, Chippewa, Dunn, Polk, Rusk | 6 hr |
| Aug 2, 5:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron, Chippewa, Dunn, Rusk | 61 min |
| Aug 2, 9:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron, Polk | 62 min |
| Aug 2, 9:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron, Rusk | 93 min |
| Aug 2, 9:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Barron, Rusk | 5 hr |
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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.