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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Duluth, MN

October 26, 1996Cass County, Itasca County, Minnesota

NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 26, 1996, 4:32 PM CDT for Cass County, Itasca County, Minnesota. It was in force for 28 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
Oct 26, 1996, 4:32 PM CDT (21:32 UTC)
Expired
Oct 26, 1996, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Duluth, MN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Cass County, MN, Itasca County, MN

The nearest sounding before it

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 157 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 1996-10-26Temperature 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 1996-10-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 89 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
458 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
134 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 26, 6:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHCass67 min
Oct 26, 6:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHCrow Wing58 min
Oct 26, 6:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHPine69 min
Oct 26, 6:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHCass62 min

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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.