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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Duluth, MN

August 22, 1995Lake County, Saint Louis County, Minnesota

NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 1995, 7:36 PM CDT for Lake County, Saint Louis County, Minnesota. It was in force for 31 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 22, 1995, 7:36 PM CDT (00:36 UTC)
Expired
Aug 22, 1995, 8:07 PM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Duluth, MN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Lake County, MN, Saint Louis County, MN

The nearest sounding before it

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 152 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 00:00Z on 1995-08-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 948 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1995-08-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 249 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
948 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-146 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1126 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
249 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
597 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
16.4

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The text

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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

Local storm report, Aug 22, 2:18 PM CDT, 5 hours 18 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER INTERNATIONAL FALLS MN
220 PM CDT TUE AUG 22 1995

TIME(CDT)    ...LOCATION OF EVENT...     STATE  ...EVENTS/REMARKS...
             ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1050 AM      BAUDETTE                    MN     BAUDETTE AIRPORT
             LAKE OF THE WOODS                  PERSONNEL REPORTED
                                                LARGE TREES SNAPPED
                                                OFF...AND SEAPLANE
                                                BLOWN OUT OF THE
                                                WATER.

MWD
Local storm report, Aug 22, 2:20 PM CDT, 5 hours 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER INTERNATIONAL FALLS MN
220 PM CDT TUE AUG 22 1995

TIME(CDT)    ...LOCATION OF EVENT...     STATE  ...EVENTS/REMARKS...
             ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1050 AM      BAUDETTE                    MN     BAUDETTE AIRPORT
             LAKE OF THE WOODS                  PERSONNEL REPORTED
                                                LARGE TREES SNAPPED
                                                OFF...AND SEAPLANE
                                                BLOWN OUT OF THE
                                                WATER.

MWD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 22, 8:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHLake57 min
Aug 22, 8:43 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHSaint Louis32 min
Aug 22, 9:17 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHSaint Louis52 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.