Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2001, 3:45 PM CDT for Ashland County, Iron County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 45 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 16, 2001, 3:45 PM CDT (20:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2001, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ashland County, WI, Iron County, WI
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 3:49 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Mellen, WI |
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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 285 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1549 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 16, 2:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 2:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 200 PM CDT SAT JUN 16 2001 TSTMS PULSING THIS AFTN BETWEEN PARK RAPIDS AND DULUTH. THEY'RE FIRING ON THE N SIDE OF THE INSTABILITY AXIS. A FEW MORE ARE REGENERATING IN ERN ND, BUT THEY SHOULD DIE AS THE SUN GOES DOWN. WE'LL LEAVE A LOW POP IN NWRN WI EARLY. THEN CALL FOR SLOW CLEARING. ON SUNDAY, ZONAL FLOW SENDING THRU A COUPLE OF IMPULSES AT DIFFERENT TIMES. ONE WILL MOVE THROUGH SRN SECTIONS DURING THE AFTN, BUT ONE ALONG THE CANADIAN BORDER WILL WAIT UNTIL ALMOST EVENING. ETA/MESOETA HAVE A CONSITENT HANDLE ON TOPICS AND WILL FOLLOW THE ETA FOR DETAILS. NGM REALLY TAKES OFF ON ITS OWN INDEPENDENT TRACK FOR EMONDAY WITH TEMPS 8 TO 12 DEG ABOVE THE MAV AND FAN. WILL TRIM BACK FROM THAT, BUT BELIEVE THE MAV IS TOO COOL BASED ON HOW IT PERFORMED FOR OUR CWA TODAY. .DLH...NONE. CS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Sawyer | 47 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001
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.