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Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN

August 27, 2019Barron County, Dunn County, Wisconsin

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Aug 27, 2019, 3:21 PM CDT for Barron County, 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: Aug 27, 2019, 3:21 PM CDT (20:21 UTC)
Expired: Aug 27, 2019, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN

Counties Barron County, WI, Dunn County, WI

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 147 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 31 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -168 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1396 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

727 
WWUS83 KMPX 272021
SPSMPX

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
321 PM CDT Tue Aug 27 2019

WIZ014-015-023-025-272100-
Polk-Barron-St. Croix-Dunn-
321 PM CDT Tue Aug 27 2019

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT DUNN...EASTERN ST. CROIX...
BARRON AND SOUTHEASTERN POLK COUNTIES...

At 321 PM CDT, a strong thunderstorm was located 7 miles south of
Clear Lake, or 24 miles northwest of Menomonie, moving east at 50
mph.

Wind gusts up to 50 mph and pea size hail are possible with this
storm.

Locations impacted include...
Menomonie, Rice Lake, Barron, Chetek, Cumberland, Baldwin, Hammond,
Cameron, Woodville, Glenwood City, Colfax and Boyceville.

This includes the following highways...
 Interstate 94 in Wisconsin between mile markers 15 and 56.
 U.S. Highway 53 between mile markers 120 and 152.

LAT...LON 4521 9167 4497 9165 4483 9166 4491 9250
      4564 9213 4563 9154 4521 9154
TIME...MOT...LOC 2021Z 276DEG 46KT 4515 9224 

$$

JRB

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 26, 7:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Isanti, Kanabec	35 min
Aug 26, 7:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Anoka	46 min
Aug 27, 12:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Anoka	47 min
Aug 27, 12:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Wright	45 min
Aug 27, 12:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Wright	44 min
Aug 27, 12:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Stearns	43 min
Aug 27, 12:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	McLeod	39 min
Aug 27, 1:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Mille Lacs	40 min
Aug 27, 1:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Stearns	36 min
Aug 27, 1:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Scott	33 min
Aug 27, 1:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Kanabec	16 min
Aug 27, 1:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Anoka	41 min
Aug 27, 1:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Sibley	59 min
Aug 27, 1:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Washington	21 min
Aug 27, 1:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Dakota	36 min
Aug 27, 1:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Ramsey, Washington	37 min
Aug 27, 1:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Dakota	32 min
Aug 27, 2:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Anoka	39 min
Aug 27, 2:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Goodhue	42 min
Aug 27, 2:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Ramsey, Washington	39 min
Aug 27, 2:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Rice	36 min
Aug 27, 1:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Saint Croix	38 min
Aug 27, 2:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Barron	44 min
Aug 27, 2:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Pierce	52 min
Aug 27, 2:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Saint Croix	55 min
Aug 27, 3:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Barron, Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire, Rusk	61 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.