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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Duluth, MN

July 14, 1995Aitkin County, Itasca County, Minnesota

NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 1995, 5:05 AM CDT for Aitkin County, Itasca County, Minnesota. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 14, 1995, 5:05 AM CDT (10:05 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 1995, 6:00 AM CDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Duluth, MN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Aitkin County, MN, Itasca County, MN

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 246 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: 2817 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2282 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 15.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, Jul 14, 4:50 AM CDT, 15 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
450 AM CDT FRI JUL 14 1995

...THUNDERSTORMS HEADED FOR MILLE LACS LAKE...

AT 445 AM CDT...DULUTH RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
APPROACHING MILLE LACS LAKE. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING
TO THE EAST AT 45 MPH AND WILL MOVE OVER THE LAKE FROM 515 TO 6 AM.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH...MARBLE SIZE OR GREATER HAIL AND VERY
HEAVY RAIN ARE EXPECTED AS THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVES OVER
MILLE LACS LAKE.

EARLY MORNING MARINERS ON MILLE LACS LAKE SHOULD HEAD FOR SHORE
IMMEDIATELY. STRONG WINDS...YIELDING HIGH SEAS ARE EXPECTED DURING
THE THUNDERSTORMS.

DAP

Special weather statement, Jul 14, 4:51 AM CDT, 14 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 14, 4:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Cass, Crow Wing	61 min
Jul 14, 5:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Carlton, Saint Louis	69 min
Jul 14, 6:21 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	DLH	Saint Louis	23 min
Jul 14, 6:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Douglas	28 min
Jul 14, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Iron, Price	64 min
Jul 14, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Price	62 min
Jul 14, 5:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DLH	Price	54 min
Jul 14, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Sawyer, Washburn	63 min
Jul 14, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Price	57 min
Jul 14, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Sawyer	61 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 1995 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.