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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Duluth, MN

June 11, 2001Price County, Wisconsin

NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2001, 6:47 PM CDT for Price County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 43 min. 3 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
Jun 11, 2001, 6:47 PM CDT (23:47 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 2001, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Duluth, MN
Area
Whole counties

County Price County, WI

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 11, 7:16 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 52 MCatawba, WITrees were blown down on U.S. Highway 8.
Jun 11, 7:30 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 50 EKennan, WITrees were blown down. The wind speed is estimated.
Jun 11, 7:35 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 65 ECatawba, WIA machine shed was blown off its foundation. There was also roof and siding damage, and a round bale feeder was thrown 225 feet. Siding was blown off a mobile home. The wind speed is estimated.

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 nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 222 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2001-06-11Temperature 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2001-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
948 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
105 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 11, 2:50 PM CDT, 3 hours 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 2:50 PM CDT, 3 hours 57 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
250 PM CDT MON JUN 11 2001

FORECAST FOCUS WILL BE SEVERE THREAT THIS EVENING...THEN CONVECTION
THROUGH REMAINDER OF FORECAST PERIODS.

ETA AND AVN IN DECENT AGREEMENT...AND FOLLOWED THE ETA FOR MOST OF
DETAILS.

STRONGEST CELLS LOCATED IN SOUTHWEST CWA. SHOWERS FURTHER NORTH.
AIRMASS HEATED UP EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON...WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE
UPPER 70S TO LOWER 80S. BLOWOFF AND SHOWERS HAVE SINCE COOLED THEM
OFF...EXCEPT IN NORTHWEST WISCONSIN. 30KT FLOW SEEN AT THE WDL
PROFILER AT 850MB. THIS FEED OF HIGHER THETA-E AIR...AS WELL AS
UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE WILL KEEP THREAT OF STORMS IN FORECAST THIS
EVENING. BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE WILL BE ACROSS SOUTHERN ZONES.
STORMS STARTING TO FIRE IN EVEN JUICIER AIR ACROSS SOUTHERN
MINNESOTA...AND THIS MAY ROB OUR STORMS OF SOME ENERGY AND MOISTURE.
WILL TIME ENDING OF CONVECTION WITH 850MB TROUGH...WHICH WOULD PUT
FAR WESTERN ZONES IN ACTION ONLY INTO EARLY EVENING...AND EASTERN
ZONES TIL SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT.

BRIEF BREAK IN THE ACTION TUESDAY...EXCEPT SOUTHERN ZONES IN THE
AFTERNOON. BETTER SHOT AT RAIN COMES TUESDAY NIGHT WITH LIFTING
WARM FRONT.

USED GUIDANCE...EXCEPT WENT A LITTLE WARMER ON WEDNESDAY IN
NORTHWEST WISCONSIN...WHERE THERE MAY BE MORE SUN THAN MODELS
FORECAST.

.DLH...NONE.

MELDE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 1:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHCass67 min
Jun 11, 2:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHCrow Wing41 min
Jun 11, 2:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHAitkin32 min
Jun 11, 5:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHCrow Wing38 min
Jun 11, 6:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHAitkin53 min
Jun 11, 4:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHBurnett33 min
Jun 11, 5:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHWashburn47 min
Jun 11, 6:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHSawyer59 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.