Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 2001, 7:35 PM CDT for Koochiching 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
- Jul 31, 2001, 7:35 PM CDT (00:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 2001, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Koochiching County, MN
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 196 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:39 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 7:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Birchdale, MN | Numerous trees were reported blown down along State Highway 11 between Birchdale and Pelland. 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 1223 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -187 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 537 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 558 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 694 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 26.2
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 Jul 31, 2:50 PM CDT, 4 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 31, 2:50 PM CDT, 4 hours 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 250 PM CDT TUE JUL 31 2001 EXTREME INSTABILITY IN PLACE TNT WITH LIFTED INDICES -3 TO -7 AND CAPES 2000 TO OVER 3000. STRONG 50 KTS+ LLJ DEVELOPS THIS EVENING AND WITH THETA-E RIDGE BUILDING OVER NORTHERN MN...THE STAGE WILL BE SET FOR THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN. MODELS IN FAIRLY GOOD AGREEMENT WITH MOVEMENT OF LOW/FRONTAL SYSTEM TNT... THEN AVN PUSHES IT THRU NWRN WI WED MUCH FASTER THAN ETA. CHOSE TO GO WITH THE SLOWER AND MORE CONSERVATIVE ETA...AND KEPT CHC OF PRECIP FOR ERN CWA INTO WED MORNING. PRECIPITALBE WATER OVER 2 INCHES...AND RAINFALL AMOUNTS OVER 3 INCHES NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION WITH SUCH A WATER-LOGGED ATMOSPHERE. WILL GO WITH FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR NORTHERN MN...GENERALLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM WALKER TO TWO HARBORS. FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE RANGES FROM 3-4 INCHES. RADAR ESTIMATES AVERAGE 1 TO 2 INCHES FOR MUCH OF THE BORDER REGION WITH SOME 4-5 INCHE AMOUNTS FROM OVERNIGHT AND THIS AFTERNOONS STORMS..SO GROUND IS VERY SATURATED. HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN WEDNESDAY...FOR A DRIER AFTERNOON. HIGH KEEPS HOLD THROUGH THURSDAY. .DLH...FLASH FLOOD WATCH NORTHERN MN CLC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Saint Louis | 52 min |
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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.