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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 109, NWS Duluth, MN

August 15, 2001Itasca County, Minnesota

NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 2001, 3:35 PM CDT for Itasca County, Minnesota. It was in force for 55 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
Aug 15, 2001, 3:35 PM CDT (20:35 UTC)
Expired
Aug 15, 2001, 4:30 PM CDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Duluth, MN
Area
Whole counties

County Itasca County, MN

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 15, 4:00 PM CDTHail 0.75Cohasset, 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 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 Aug 15, 3:31 PM CDT, 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 15, 3:31 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
331 PM CDT WED AUG 15 2001

FORECAST PROBLEM WILL BE TIMING OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AND LOW
LEVEL CEILING DISSIPATION/RETREAT.

WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWING A WELL ESTABLISHED SOUTHERLY DEVELOPMENT
OF THE UPPER LEVEL TROUGH WITH THE APEX DIVING INTO THE NORTHERN
PLAINS STATES. THE ETA SHOWS THIS VERY WELL ON THE 12Z RUN WHILE THE
AVN TAKES THE TROUGH TO THE EAST A LITTLE FASTER. AS THE TROUGH
CONTINUES TO DIG...IT SHOULD CONTINUE TO KEEP THE FRONT ON A SLOW
PACE THROUGH NORTHERN MINNISOTA AND NORTHWEST WISCONSIN. THIS
SHOULD ALSO ALLOW FOR AMPLE PREFRONTAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORM
DEVELOPMENT AS WELL.

POST FRONTAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SCATTERED AS THE
SURFACE SYSTEM SPINS UP THROUGH THE PVA SIDE OF THE TROUGH...BUT
WILL SEE A DECREASE IN ACTIVITY OVERNIGHT ONLY TO SEE SCENARIO
REPEAT ITSELF ONCE AGAIN AS HEATING OCCURS AGAIN TOMORROW ONLY
FARTHER EAST.

.DLH...NONE.

T.ERICKSON

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 15, 11:04 AM CDT, 4 hours 31 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 14, 7:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHSaint Louis53 min
Aug 14, 7:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHKoochiching55 min
Aug 15, 1:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHKoochiching31 min
Aug 15, 5:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHCarlton, Saint Louis58 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.