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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Duluth, MN

September 9, 1996Saint Louis County, Minnesota

NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 9, 1996, 9:28 PM CDT for Saint Louis County, Minnesota. It was in force for 62 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 9, 1996, 9:28 PM CDT (02:28 UTC)
Expired
Sep 9, 1996, 10:30 PM CDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Duluth, MN
Area
Whole counties

County Saint Louis County, MN

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 317 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, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 1996-09-10Temperature 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, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 1996-09-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 86 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
2077 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
219 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 9, 8:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHSaint Louis66 min
Sep 10, 7:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHItasca43 min
Sep 10, 9:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHSaint Louis64 min
Sep 10, 11:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHCass, Itasca63 min
Sep 10, 1:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHCass, Crow Wing57 min
Sep 10, 2:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHAitkin, Crow Wing60 min
Sep 10, 4:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHPine43 min
Sep 10, 10:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHBayfield62 min
Sep 10, 3:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHWashburn50 min
Sep 10, 4:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHBurnett57 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.