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Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN

July 17, 2026Dunn County, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Jul 17, 2026, 11:04 PM CDT for Dunn County, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 41 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: Jul 17, 2026, 11:04 PM CDT (04:04 UTC)
Expired: Jul 17, 2026, 11:45 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 40

Counties Dunn County, WI, Eau Claire County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 275 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: 1884 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1453 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 193 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 15.5

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The text

As transmitted.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Twin Cities, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jul 17, 6:26 PM CDT, 4 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 17, 6:26 PM CDT, 4 hours 38 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 17, 3:44 PM CDT, 7 hours 20 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 17, 9:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Rusk	54 min
Jul 17, 10:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Barron, Chippewa, Dunn, Rusk	59 min
Jul 17, 10:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Saint Croix	26 min
Jul 17, 11:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Eau Claire, Pepin	29 min
Jul 18, 12:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Pepin	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.