Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 2000, 10:53 PM CDT for Carlton County, Saint Louis County, Minnesota. It was in force for 67 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 8, 2000, 10:53 PM CDT (03:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2000, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Carlton County, MN, Saint Louis County, MN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 10:53 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Fond Du Lac, MN | |
| Jul 8, 11:10 PM CDT | Hail 1 | New Duluth, 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 173 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 447 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1355 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDLH 090355 SVRDLH TTAA00 KDLH 090353 MNC017-137-WIC007-031-090500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 1053 PM CDT SAT JUL 8 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DULUTH MN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CARLTON COUNTY IN MINNESOTA DOUGLAS COUNTY IN WISCONSIN BAYFIELD COUNTY IN WISCONSIN SOUTHERN ST. LOUIS COUNTY IN MINNESOTA * UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT * AT 1053 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR GARY...OR ABOUT 11 MILES WEST OF SUPERIOR...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WEST DULUTH AROUND 1100 PM CDT DULUTH AROUND 1105 PM CDT CLOVERLAND AROUND 1135 PM CDT PORT WING AROUND MIDNIGHT CDT DAMAGING HAIL UP TO ONE INCH AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS OVER 60 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. HAIL TO NICKEL SIZE HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. $$ MELDE
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 Jul 8, 2:00 PM CDT, 8 hours 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 2:00 PM CDT, 8 hours 53 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
200 PM CDT SAT JUL 8 2000
SEVERE WEATHER IS THE MAIN FOCUS FOR TONIGHT.
THINGS ARE COMING TOGETHER FOR A FAIRLY WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER
EVENT ACROSS THE AREA. SPC MODERATE RISK AREA RUNS FROM WALKER TO
DLH TO RHI. AGREE THAT THIS AREA LOOKS FAVORABLE FOR WIDESPREAD
SEVERE. ISOLATED STORM NOW FIRING IN THE WARM SECTOR MAY NOT BE ABLE
TO GET GOING RIGHT AWAY...BUT MOISTURE CONVERGENCE AND MOISTURE
POOLING IN THE VICINITY OF THE WARM FRONT SHOULD ENSURE A BUSY
NIGHT. LONG-LIVED SUPERCELLS REMAIN A DISTINCT POSSIBILITY.
WILL GO WITH THE ETA...WHICH INITIALIZED THE BEST THIS MORNING.
ETA/MESO APPEAR TO HAVE A FAIR HANDLE ON THE AREA OF CONVECTION. ETA
FORECASTS A SURGE OF HIGH PW AIR (1.88 INCH) TO LIFT NORTHWARD WITH
THE FRONT THIS EVENING AS LLJ INCREASES IN THE VICINITY OF THE FRONT.
LIFT FROM RIGHT ENTRANCE OF UPPER LEVEL JET AND WEAK PVA SHOULD ALSO
PROVIDE NECESSARY LIFT FOR SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAK. THE AIR SOUTH OF
THE FRONT IS EXTREMELY UNSTABLE...WITH LI OF -12C ON MSAS AND
WEAKENING CAP.
WILL CARRY THE SEVERE WORDING INTO THE EVENING AND ELABORATE ON MAIN
THREATS. NEXT PROBLEM IS FLASH FLOODING POTENTIAL. STILL SOME
QUESTION AS TO WHETHER BRD AREA WILL RECEIVE SUBSTANTIAL RAIN
TONIGHT. AREAS JUST NORTH OF THERE REMAIN SATURATED FROM NEARLY 4
INCHES OF RAIN LAST NIGHT...AND WITH LOW FFG VALUES...DECIDED TO
CARRY IT THIS FAR WEST. MUCH OF NW WISCONSIN HAS A PRETTY SERIOUS
THREAT OF FLOODING. MANY AREAS RECEIVED HEAVY RAIN LAST NIGHT AND THIS
MORNING WITH SOME MINOR FLOODING ALREADY FROM THE PREVIOUS EVENT.
WILL ALSO ISSUE A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR MUCH OF THIS AREA.
THINGS IMPROVE AFTER TONIGHT...WITH DRY NORTHEASTERLY FLOW
PREVAILING. MAINLY PARTLY TO MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES.
ETA SURFACE TEMP FORECASTS APPEAR REASONABLE...AND HAVE FAVORED OVER
FWC/MAV TEMPS.
.DLH...FLASH FLOOD WATCH MN ZONES 33>36 AND 38...WI ZONES 3...4
AND 6>9 TONIGHT.
DAPIn the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 10:17 PM CDT, 36 minutes before
WIZ003-004-009-090345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 1017 PM CDT SAT JUL 8 2000 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 553 FOR ASHLAND...IRON AND PRICE COUNTIES IN WISCONSIN BEEN CANCELLED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR ASHLAND...IRON AND PRICE COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN SOUTHEAST OF THE AREA. MORE THUNDERSTOhRMS ARE POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT...BUT THAT ACTIVITY SHOULD REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. SHIMON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Pine | 50 min |
| Jul 8, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Pine | 31 min |
| Jul 8, 9:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DLH | Pine | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Pine | 65 min |
| Jul 8, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Aitkin | 59 min |
| Jul 8, 11:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Pine | 46 min |
| Jul 9, 12:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DLH | Pine | 4 hr |
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.