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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Duluth, MN

July 1, 1996Itasca County, Minnesota

NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 1996, 5:27 PM CDT for Itasca County, Minnesota. It was in force for 63 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jul 1, 1996, 5:27 PM CDT (22:27 UTC)
Expired
Jul 1, 1996, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Duluth, MN
Area
Whole counties

County Itasca County, MN

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 1, 5:35 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 52Ball Club, MN
Jul 1, 6:07 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 52Pokegama Lake, MN

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 296 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 12:00Z on 1996-07-01Temperature 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 12:00Z on 1996-07-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 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
1961 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
3 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
Jul 1, 4:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHCrow Wing50 min
Jul 1, 4:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHCass36 min
Jul 1, 5:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHAitkin66 min
Jul 1, 5:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHCass65 min
Jul 1, 6:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHAitkin, Itasca39 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.