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 23, 2011, 3:17 PM CDT for Chippewa County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 43 min. 3 reports 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 23, 2011, 3:17 PM CDT (20:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2011, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
County Chippewa County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:17 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 23, 3:40 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | Holcombe, WI | |
| Aug 23, 3:59 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 8 Nnw Stanley, WI | |
| Aug 23, 4:00 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 8 N Stanley, 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 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -137 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1908 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
398
WWUS83 KMPX 232017
SPSMPX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
317 PM CDT TUE AUG 23 2011
WIZ016-027-232100-
CHIPPEWA-RUSK-
317 PM CDT TUE AUG 23 2011
...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO/DEVELOPING OVER CHIPPEWA AND RUSK
COUNTIES THROUGH 400 PM CDT...
AT 314 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BRUCE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
HAIL UP TO NICKEL SIZE AND WINDS UP TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.
* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
ISLAND LAKE.
HOLCOMBE.
SHELDON.
STANLEY.
LAT...LON 4492 9093 4531 9146 4547 9120 4531 9091
4492 9091
TIME...MOT...LOC 2017Z 312DEG 28KT 4535 9119
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 12:08 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Martin, Watonwan | 52 min |
| Aug 23, 12:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Redwood | 46 min |
| Aug 23, 1:24 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Renville | 51 min |
| Aug 23, 2:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Nicollet | 44 min |
| Aug 23, 2:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Nicollet | 26 min |
| Aug 23, 2:13 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Douglas, Stevens | 62 min |
| Aug 23, 2:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Pope, Stevens, Todd | 66 min |
| Aug 23, 2:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Nicollet, Rice, Sibley | 45 min |
| Aug 23, 2:51 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Freeborn | 39 min |
| Aug 23, 2:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Pope, Stearns, Stevens, Swift, Todd | 65 min |
| Aug 23, 2:57 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Carver | 48 min |
| Aug 23, 3:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift | 67 min |
| Aug 23, 3:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Scott | 33 min |
| Aug 23, 3:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Meeker, Pope, Stearns and 2 more | 56 min |
| Aug 23, 3:40 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Dakota | 50 min |
| Aug 23, 4:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, McLeod, Meeker, Renville, Stearns, Yellow Medicine | 56 min |
| Aug 23, 4:28 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Benton, Isanti, McLeod, Renville, Sherburne, Wright | 47 min |
| Aug 23, 5:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Carver, Hennepin, Wright | 46 min |
| Aug 23, 5:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Dakota, Ramsey | 46 min |
| Aug 23, 5:52 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Washington | 38 min |
| Aug 23, 6:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault | 33 min |
| Aug 23, 6:42 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Freeborn | 33 min |
| Aug 23, 1:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chippewa, Rusk | 56 min |
| Aug 23, 2:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Rusk | 52 min |
| Aug 23, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 36 min |
| Aug 23, 4:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Eau Claire | 25 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.