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Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Oct 17, 2016, 4:42 PM CDT for Rusk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 63 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
- Oct 17, 2016, 4:42 PM CDT (21:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 17, 2016, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
County Rusk County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -360 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 651 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
019
WWUS83 KMPX 172142
SPSMPX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
442 PM CDT MON OCT 17 2016
WIZ015-016-025-027-172245-
RUSK-DUNN-BARRON-CHIPPEWA-
442 PM CDT MON OCT 17 2016
...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SOUTHWESTERN RUSK...
SOUTHEASTERN BARRON...NORTHEASTERN DUNN AND NORTHERN CHIPPEWA
COUNTIES THROUGH 545 PM CDT...
AT 441 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED
ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR SAND CREEK TO NEAR CEDAR FALLS.
MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH AND HALF INCH HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE
STORMS.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MENOMONIE...LADYSMITH...BLOOMER...CORNELL...COLFAX...BRUCE...
NEW AUBURN...SAND CREEK...TONY...CONRATH...
TAINTER LAKE AND CHIPPEWA MORAINE STATE REC AREA.
THIS INCLUDES U.S. HIGHWAY 53 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 108 AND 124.
LAT...LON 4556 9091 4520 9105 4492 9188 4513 9185
4541 9142
TIME...MOT...LOC 2141Z 238DEG 37KT 4511 9171 4496 9185
$$
JPCThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 17, 5:31 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Faribault, Freeborn, Kandiyohi and 15 more | 5 hr |
| Oct 17, 5:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Hennepin | 30 min |
| Oct 17, 5:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Washington | 38 min |
| Oct 17, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Washington | 33 min |
| Oct 17, 2:30 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Rusk | 15 min |
| Oct 17, 5:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Barron | 31 min |
| Oct 17, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn, Pepin, Pierce, Saint Croix | 52 min |
| Oct 17, 6:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Rusk | 37 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.