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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Twin Cities, MN

May 11, 2022Barron County, Rusk County, Wisconsin

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 2022, 10:22 PM CDT for Barron County, Rusk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 38 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: May 11, 2022, 10:22 PM CDT (03:22 UTC)
Expired: May 11, 2022, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Barron County, WI, Rusk County, WI

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 165 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 11, 5:27 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 175 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: 243 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -306 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 862 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 439 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 580 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 17.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

514 
WUUS53 KMPX 120322
SVRMPX
WIC005-107-120400-
/O.NEW.KMPX.SV.W.0101.220512T0322Z-220512T0400Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
1022 PM CDT Wed May 11 2022

The National Weather Service in the Twin Cities has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Western Rusk County in northwestern Wisconsin...
  Eastern Barron County in northwestern Wisconsin...

* Until 1100 PM CDT.

* At 1021 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 6 miles east of
  Rice Lake, moving east at 40 mph.

  HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage 
           to roofs, siding, and trees.

* This severe thunderstorm will be near...
  Weyerhaeuser around 1035 PM CDT.

Other locations in the path of this severe thunderstorm include
Bruce.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A Tornado Watch remains in effect until midnight CDT for northwestern
and west central Wisconsin.

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.

A Tornado Watch remains in effect until midnight CDT for northwestern
and west central Wisconsin.

&&

LAT...LON 4529 9153 4521 9155 4521 9187 4564 9185
      4564 9178 4563 9142 4564 9113 4529 9111
TIME...MOT...LOC 0321Z 258DEG 33KT 4548 9161 

TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH

$$

BPH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 11, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MPX	Pierce	63 min
May 11, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MPX	Polk, Saint Croix	65 min
May 11, 9:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Pepin, Pierce	38 min
May 11, 9:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Barron, Dunn, Pepin	56 min
May 11, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Pepin	30 min
May 11, 10:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire, Pepin	55 min
May 11, 10:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Barron, Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire, Pepin, Rusk	89 min
May 11, 10:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Eau Claire, Rusk	67 min
May 12, 12:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Chippewa, Eau Claire, Rusk	29 min
May 12, 12:37 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Chippewa	8 min
May 12, 2:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Rusk	62 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.