Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this tornado warning at Jul 14, 1995, 6:21 AM CDT for Saint Louis County, Minnesota. It was in force for 23 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 1995, 6:21 AM CDT (11:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 1995, 6:44 AM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Saint Louis County, MN
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 11.4 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -308 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1726 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDLH 141122 TORDLH MNC137-141200- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 621 AM CDT FRI JUL 14 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DULUTH HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST MINNESOTA ...SOUTHERN ST LOUIS COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR. AT 616 AM...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR GRAND LAKE TOWNSHIP ON CARIBOU ROAD...WHICH IS ABOUT 7 MILES WEST OF DULUTH. THIS TORNADO WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE DULUTH. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED6 BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. TAP
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, 1 hour 31 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, 1 hour 30 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
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, 5:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Itasca | 55 min |
| Jul 14, 5:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Carlton, Saint Louis | 69 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.