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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Duluth, MN

June 4, 1997Cass County, Minnesota

NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1997, 2:27 PM CDT for Cass County, Minnesota. It was in force for 48 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 4, 1997, 2:27 PM CDT (19:27 UTC)
Expired
Jun 4, 1997, 3:15 PM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Duluth, MN
Area
Whole counties

County Cass County, MN

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 196 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 1997-06-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 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, International Fa, MN at 12:00Z on 1997-06-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 30 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-231 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1404 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
91 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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 4, 2:35 AM CDT, 11 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 2:35 AM CDT, 11 hours 52 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 3:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHCass59 min
Jun 4, 5:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHItasca36 min
Jun 4, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHItasca30 min
Jun 4, 6:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHItasca42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 1997Every severe thunderstorm 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.