Alert archive / Wisconsin / Special Weather Statements in 2015
Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Jun 17, 2015, 5:21 PM CDT for Dunn County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 39 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
- Jun 17, 2015, 5:21 PM CDT (22:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2015, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
County Dunn County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 3208 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 225 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
786
WWUS83 KMPX 172221
SPSMPX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
521 PM CDT WED JUN 17 2015
WIZ025-027-172300-
CHIPPEWA-DUNN-
521 PM CDT WED JUN 17 2015
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHWESTERN CHIPPEWA AND
NORTHEASTERN DUNN COUNTIES THROUGH 6 PM CDT...
AT 520 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR WHEELER...OR 11 MILES
NORTH OF MENOMONIE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
HALF INCH HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...BLOOMER...COLFAX...WHEELER...TILDEN...
TAINTER LAKE...HOFFMAN HILLS REC AREA AND EAGLETON.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY CAUSE
LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
LAT...LON 4498 9196 4516 9194 4514 9135 4498 9134
4489 9151 4493 9182
TIME...MOT...LOC 2220Z 276DEG 22KT 4506 9181
$$
JPCThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 1:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Steele | 45 min |
| Jun 17, 2:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Waseca | 47 min |
| Jun 17, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Waseca | 30 min |
| Jun 17, 2:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Steele | 67 min |
| Jun 17, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 38 min |
| Jun 17, 4:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Freeborn | 22 min |
| Jun 17, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 53 min |
| Jun 17, 4:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Freeborn | 25 min |
| Jun 17, 5:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Freeborn | 56 min |
| Jun 17, 5:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 3 hr |
| Jun 17, 6:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Freeborn | 53 min |
| Jun 17, 6:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chippewa | 47 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.