Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1986, 5:54 PM CDT for Carlton County, Saint Louis County, Minnesota. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 1986, 5:54 PM CDT (22:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1986, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Carlton County, MN, Saint Louis County, MN
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 262 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1625 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 4:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 400 PM CDT TUE JUNE 3 1986 AT 4PM THIS AFTERNOON DULUTH RADAR SHOWED RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF A THUNDER STORM OVER NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS CENTERED ABOUT 30 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF GRAND RAPIDS AND WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 30 MPH. THE CASS COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICE REPORTED HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WINDS AS IT MOVED ACROSS THE NORTHERN EDGE OF LEECH LAKE MINNESOTA. PRESENT MOVEMENT WOULD PUT IT NEAR REMER MINNESOTA..20 MILES SOUTH OF GRAND RAPIDS BETWEEN 4.15 AND 4.30 PM THIS AFTERNOON. WHILE NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM AT THIS TIME..IT IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG WINDS AND HAIL ALONG WITH THE HEAVY RAIN. PETERSON
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 4:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND PRECIPITATION SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 430 PM CDT TUE JUNE 3 1986 AT 425 THIS AFTERNOON...A 20 MILE WIDE BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM JUST SOUTHWEST OF LEECH LAKE IN CASS COUNTY..ABOUT 110 MILES WEST OF DULUTH...THEN EAST NORTHEAST ALONG THE SOUTHERN EDGE OF THE RANGE CITIES..THROUGH GILBERT AND AURORA. THE EXTENDED ALL THE WAY EAST THROUGH ISABELLA..60 MILES NORTHEAST OF DULUTH..AND ON TO NEAR GRAND MARAIS ON THE SHORES OF LAKE SUPERIOR..90 MILES NORTHEAST OF DULUTH. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES WEST OF HILL CITY..ABOUT 70 MILES WEST OF DULUTH..NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF CASS..ITASCA..AND AITKIN COUNTIES. STRONG GUSTY SURFACE WINDS..HEAVY RAINS..AND SMALL HAIL HAVE BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM. STORM AT THIS THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. ..CHRISTENSON..
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 4:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND PRECIPITATION SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 430 PM CDT TUE JUNE 3 1986 AT 425 THIS AFTERNOON...A 20 MILE WIDE BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM JUST SOUTHWEST OF LEECH LAKE IN CASS COUNTY..ABOUT 110 MILES WEST OF DULUTH...THEN EAST NORTHEAST ALONG THE SOUTHERN EDGE OF THE RANGE CITIES..THROUGH GILBERT AND AURORA. THE LINE EXTENDED ALL THE WAY EAST THROUGH ISABELLA..60 MILES NORTHEAST OF DULUTH..AND ON TO NEAR GRAND MARAIS ON THE SHORES OF LAKE SUPERIOR..90 MILES NORTHEAST OF DULUTH. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES WEST OF HILL CITY..ABOUT 70 MILES WEST OF DULUTH..NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF CASS..ITASCA..AND AITKIN COUNTIES. STRONG GUSTY SURFACE WINDS..HEAVY RAINS..AND SMALL HAIL HAVE BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. ..CHRISTENSON..
The office that day
Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 5:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Aitkin | 39 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986
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.