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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Duluth, MN

June 26, 1996Itasca County, Minnesota

NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1996, 4:19 AM CDT for Itasca County, Minnesota. It was in force for 26 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
Jun 26, 1996, 4:19 AM CDT (09:19 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 1996, 4:45 AM CDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Duluth, MN
Area
Whole counties

County Itasca County, MN

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 120 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 1996-06-26Temperature 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 00:00Z on 1996-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 96 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
1444 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
233 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
Jun 26, 12:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHSaint Louis63 min
Jun 26, 1:09 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningDLHSaint Louis5 hr
Jun 26, 3:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHCass42 min
Jun 26, 3:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHItasca50 min
Jun 26, 2:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHKoochiching, Saint Louis47 min
Jun 26, 5:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHSaint Louis67 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.