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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Duluth, MN

June 25, 1998Pine County, Minnesota; Burnett County, Wisconsin

NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1998, 2:33 AM CDT for Pine County, Minnesota; Burnett County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 27 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 25, 1998, 2:33 AM CDT (07:33 UTC)
Expired
Jun 25, 1998, 3:00 AM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Duluth, MN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Pine County, MN, Burnett County, WI

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 151 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 00:00Z on 1998-06-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3921 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1998-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 72 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
3921 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1033 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.2
Supercell composite
5.8

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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 24, 2:30 PM CDT, 12 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 2:30 PM CDT, 12 hours 3 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 1:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHPine57 min
Jun 25, 1:08 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHPine37 min
Jun 25, 2:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHDouglas45 min
Jun 25, 3:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHBayfield45 min
Jun 25, 3:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHAshland62 min
Jun 25, 4:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHIron47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 1998Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.