Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Duluth, MN

June 4, 1999Cass County, Minnesota

NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1999, 10:56 PM CDT for Cass County, Minnesota. It was in force for 64 min. 1 report 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
Jun 4, 1999, 10:56 PM CDT (03:56 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1999, 12:00 AM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Duluth, MN
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Cass County, MN

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:57 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 4, 11:12 PM CDTHail 0.88Cass 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 4, 9:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 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 00:00Z on 1999-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1521 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 00:00Z on 1999-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 90 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
1521 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1248 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
176 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.8
Supercell composite
8.3

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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 4, 11:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHItasca54 min
Jun 4, 11:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHSaint Louis66 min
Jun 5, 1:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHCass58 min
Jun 5, 1:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHCass, Itasca67 min
Jun 5, 3:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHItasca56 min
Jun 5, 4:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHPine65 min
Jun 5, 4:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHSawyer32 min
Jun 5, 4:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHBayfield43 min
Jun 5, 4:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHSawyer, Washburn53 min
Jun 5, 4:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHAshland, Sawyer67 min
Jun 5, 5:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHWashburn48 min
Jun 5, 5:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHAshland49 min
Jun 5, 5:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHSawyer, Washburn63 min
Jun 5, 6:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHIron44 min
Jun 5, 6:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHPrice62 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.