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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Duluth, MN

September 16, 1992Saint Louis County, Minnesota

NWS Duluth, MN issued this tornado warning at Sep 16, 1992, 3:32 PM CDT for Saint Louis County, Minnesota. It was in force for 58 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
Sep 16, 1992, 3:32 PM CDT (20:32 UTC)
Expired
Sep 16, 1992, 4:30 PM CDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Duluth, MN
Area
Whole counties

County Saint Louis County, MN

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Sep 16, 4:10 PM CDTHail 0.75St. Louis, MN
Sep 16, 4:15 PM CDTTornado F0St. Louis, MN
Sep 16, 4:20 PM CDTTornado F0St. 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 126 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, International Fa, MN at 12:00Z on 1992-09-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, International Fa, MN at 12:00Z on 1992-09-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 7 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 16, 2:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHItasca55 min
Sep 16, 2:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHCass33 min
Sep 16, 3:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHSaint Louis58 min
Sep 16, 3:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHAitkin, Saint Louis2 hr
Sep 16, 4:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHCarlton64 min
Sep 16, 5:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHPine55 min
Sep 16, 5:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHDouglas35 min
Sep 16, 6:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHDouglas33 min
Sep 16, 6:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHBayfield34 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Minnesota, 1992Every tornado warning in 1992Tornadoes in 1992

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.