Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 219, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 2016, 3:01 AM CDT for Pierce County, Saint Croix County, Wisconsin; Washington County, Minnesota. 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
- Aug 19, 2016, 3:01 AM CDT (08:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2016, 3:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Washington County, MN, Pierce County, WI, Saint Croix County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:04 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 185 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -378 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2171 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
555
WUUS53 KMPX 190801
SVRMPX
MNC163-WIC093-109-190845-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0219.160819T0801Z-160819T0845Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
301 AM CDT FRI AUG 19 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
ST. CROIX COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN...
NORTHWESTERN PIERCE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN...
* UNTIL 345 AM CDT
* AT 301 AM CDT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM LAKE ELMO TO NEAR PRESCOTT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50
MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
STILLWATER...HUDSON...NORTH HUDSON AND BAYPORT AROUND 310 AM CDT.
RIVER FALLS AROUND 315 AM CDT.
SOMERSET AND ROBERTS AROUND 320 AM CDT.
NEW RICHMOND...BALDWIN AND HAMMOND AROUND 325 AM CDT.
WOODVILLE AROUND 330 AM CDT.
GLENWOOD CITY AROUND 345 AM CDT.
OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THESE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS INCLUDE
BURKHARDT...LAKELAND...LAKE ELMO AIRPORT...AFTON STATE
PARK...LAKELAND SHORES...HOULTON...ST MARYS POINT...NEW RICHMOND
AIRPORT...CYLON AND LAKE ST CROIX BEACH.
THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS...
INTERSTATE 94 IN MINNESOTA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 249 AND 258.
INTERSTATE 94 IN WISCONSIN BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 1 AND 24.
U.S. HIGHWAY 61 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 125 AND 130.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 4490 9231 4470 9268 4485 9301 4487 9302
4489 9300 4489 9299 4491 9299 4520 9276
4511 9213
TIME...MOT...LOC 0801Z 225DEG 41KT 4500 9293 4475 9267
HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
JPCThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 11:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Pierce | 43 min |
| Aug 18, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn, Pepin, Pierce | 27 min |
| Aug 19, 3:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Polk, Saint Croix | 45 min |
| Aug 19, 3:24 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Pepin, Pierce | 36 min |
| Aug 19, 3:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn, Pepin, Pierce, Saint Croix | 22 min |
| Aug 19, 4:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron, Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire, Pepin, Pierce and 3 more | 58 min |
| Aug 18, 10:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Rice | 51 min |
| Aug 18, 11:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 52 min |
| Aug 19, 12:48 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Blue Earth, McLeod, Nicollet, Sibley | 57 min |
| Aug 19, 1:45 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Carver, Le Sueur, McLeod, Rice, Scott, Steele and 1 more | 45 min |
| Aug 19, 1:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Hennepin, McLeod | 47 min |
| Aug 19, 2:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Hennepin, Wright | 24 min |
| Aug 19, 2:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Hennepin, Isanti, Ramsey, Sherburne, Washington and 1 more | 60 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.