Alert archive / Wisconsin / Special Weather Statements in 2013
Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Aug 21, 2013, 3:21 PM CDT for Barron County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 39 min. 4 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 21, 2013, 3:21 PM CDT (20:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 21, 2013, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
County Barron County, WI
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 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 21, 3:40 PM CDT | HAIL 1.25 | 5 Nnw Rice Lake, WI | HAILED ABOUT FIVE MINUTES. TRUCK DENTED. SOME LEAVES STRIPPED IN NEARBY CORN FIELD. |
| Aug 21, 3:50 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 2 Wsw Rice Lake, WI | SMALL BRANCHES ALSO DOWN. |
| Aug 21, 4:00 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 2 Sw Rice Lake, WI | |
| Aug 21, 4:01 PM CDT | HAIL 0.25 | Rice Lake, WI | HAIL NOW ALSO VERY HEAVY RAIN FOR 20 MINUTES |
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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 2865 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -197 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 819 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
239
WWUS83 KMPX 212021
SPSMPX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
321 PM CDT WED AUG 21 2013
WIZ015-212100-
BARRON-
321 PM CDT WED AUG 21 2013
...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OVER BARRON COUNTY THROUGH
400 PM CDT...
AT 317 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTH OF SHELL LAKE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
HAIL UP TO NICKEL SIZE AND WINDS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM.
* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
BARRONETT.
CUMBERLAND AP.
HAUGEN.
RICE LAKE.
LAT...LON 4537 9185 4558 9213 4565 9203 4565 9184
4554 9164
TIME...MOT...LOC 2022Z 312DEG 15KT 4558 9194
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 3:51 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | MPX | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago, Dakota and 15 more | 10 hr |
| Aug 21, 2:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Nicollet, Scott, Sibley | 38 min |
| Aug 21, 3:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Dakota | 30 min |
| Aug 21, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota | 36 min |
| Aug 21, 3:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron | 38 min |
| Aug 21, 4:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Pierce | 52 min |
| Aug 21, 4:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chippewa | 39 min |
| Aug 21, 4:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Dunn | 51 min |
| Aug 21, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn | 37 min |
| Aug 21, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Eau Claire | 51 min |
| Aug 21, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Eau Claire | 20 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.