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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Duluth, MN

September 1, 1997Burnett County, Washburn County, Wisconsin

NWS Duluth, MN issued this flash flood warning at Sep 1, 1997, 5:06 PM CDT for Burnett County, Washburn County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 3 hr. 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 1, 1997, 5:06 PM CDT (22:06 UTC)
Expired
Sep 1, 1997, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Duluth, MN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Burnett County, WI, Washburn County, WI

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 165 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 1997-09-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 751 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1997-09-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 215 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
751 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-155 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
739 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
215 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
203 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.7

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Duluth, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Sep 1, 2:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 1, 2:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
232 PM CDT MON SEP 1 1997

FORECAST PROBLEM TONIGHT IS DECREASE OF CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY THIS
EVENING AND DECREASING CLOUDS OVERNIGHT.

NO TIME TO REALLY LOOK AT ANYTHING AS HAVE RECENTLY CAME ON THE
PUBLIC DESK. 18Z SFC STREAMLINE AND SFC ANALYSES SHOW THAT COLD
FRONT HAS REACHED A CKC-TWM-BRD LINE. LOWER TROPOSPHERIC THETA-E
RIDGE AHEAD OF THE FRONT IS BEING SHUNTED TO THE SOUTHEAST ACROSS
NW WISCONSIN. SURFACE BASED LIFTED INDICES SHOW MAXIMUM INSTABILITY
MOVING INTO THIS AREA. CURRENT +TSRAGS CELLS MOVING INTO THIS AREA
ATTM AND SVR THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD CONTINUE TO MAINTAIN INTENSITY
INTO THE EARLY EVENING AS THEY TRACK THROUGH THIS AREA.

BEHIND THE FRONT...BAND OF LOW LEVEL SC SHOULD BEGIN TO DISSIPATE
DURING THE EVENING HOURS WITH CLEARING FOR THE NORTHERN MN ZONES
BY 06Z. MODERATE LOW LEVEL COLD AIR ADVECTION SHOULD ALLOW OVERNIGHT
LOWS TO FALL INTO THE LOWER TO MIDDLfE 40S IN THE FAR NORTH...MIDDLE TO
UPPER 40S IN REMAINDER OF MN ZONES. LOWS IN THE LOWER 50S
SHOULD REMAIN ACROSS NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN ZONES.

THANKS TO MPX FOR EARLY LOOK AT WORK ZONES.

BRAMER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 1, 11:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHCrow Wing59 min
Sep 1, 12:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHAitkin, Crow Wing44 min
Sep 1, 1:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHAitkin, Pine40 min
Sep 1, 1:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHPine62 min
Sep 1, 2:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHPine61 min
Sep 1, 2:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHBurnett, Washburn69 min
Sep 1, 3:20 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHBurnett25 min
Sep 1, 3:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHSawyer, Washburn57 min
Sep 1, 4:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHBurnett63 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Wisconsin, 1997Every flash flood warning in 1997

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.