Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 1986
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 21, 1986, 5:35 PM CDT for Carlton County, Saint Louis County, Minnesota. It was in force for 55 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 21, 1986, 5:35 PM CDT (22:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 1986, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Carlton, MN | |
| Jun 21, 5:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Carlton, MN | |
| Jun 21, 6:12 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | St. Louis, MN |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 562 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Saint Louis | 31 min |
| Jun 21, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Cass, Crow Wing | 25 min |
| Jun 21, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Carlton, Saint Louis | 45 min |
| Jun 21, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Saint Louis | 45 min |
| Jun 21, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Carlton | 45 min |
| Jun 21, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Pine | 40 min |
| Jun 21, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Pine | 55 min |
Nearby
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.