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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Duluth, MN

June 18, 2001Sawyer County, Wisconsin

NWS Duluth, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 18, 2001, 10:16 PM CDT for Sawyer County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 14 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 18, 2001, 10:16 PM CDT (03:16 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 2001, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 14 min
Issued by: NWS Duluth, MN
Area: Whole counties

County Sawyer County, WI

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:16 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 18, 9:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 223 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2360 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1718 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 169 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 13.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KDLH 190317
TORDLH

WIC113-190330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
1016 PM CDT MON JUN 18 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN SAWYER COUNTY IN WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT

* AT 1016 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER EXTREME EAST
  CENTRAL SAWYER COUNTY...OR ABOUT 17 MILES WEST OF PARK FALLS...
  MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THIS TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  THE PRICE COUNTY SAWYER COUNTY LINE BY 1030 PM CDT

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY
IN THE WARNED AREA.

$$

LAT...LON 4593 9083 4575 9083 4573 9068 4593 9068

SCW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 18, 7:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Burnett	40 min
Jun 18, 7:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DLH	Burnett	59 min
Jun 18, 8:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Douglas	66 min
Jun 18, 8:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DLH	Burnett, Washburn	60 min
Jun 18, 8:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DLH	Douglas	51 min
Jun 18, 9:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DLH	Sawyer	63 min
Jun 18, 9:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Sawyer, Washburn	36 min
Jun 18, 10:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Ashland, Iron	52 min
Jun 18, 10:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DLH	Price	52 min
Jun 18, 10:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Sawyer	47 min
Jun 18, 11:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Price, Sawyer	60 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.