Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2002, 10:59 PM CDT for Aitkin County, Minnesota. It was in force for 61 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 2002, 10:59 PM CDT (03:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2002, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Aitkin County, MN
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 540 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDLH 230359 SVRDLH MNC001-230500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 1058 PM CDT SAT JUN 22 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN AITKIN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT * AT 1058 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BALL BLUFF...OR ABOUT 24 MILES SOUTH OF GRAND RAPIDS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LIBBY AROUND 1105 PM... BALSAM AROUND 1115 PM... DAMAGING HAIL UP TO ONE INCH AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS OVER 60 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. .END LAT...LON 4696 9334 4682 9346 4666 9306 4695 9307 SHIMON
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 22, 3:26 PM CDT, 7 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 3:26 PM CDT, 7 hours 33 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 326 PM CDT SAT JUN 22 2002 FORECAST CONCERN WILL BE ON SEVERE WEATHER TONIGHT. CURRENT ZONE PACKAGE LOOKS REAL GOOD AND NO MAJOR CHANGES WILL BE MADE. ALL VOLITILE INDICIES ARE PEAKING THIS AFTERNOON. THIS SHOULD CONTINUE THROUGH A GOOD PORTION OF TONIGHT. HELICITIES FROM THE SFC UP ARE FAIRLY HIGH WITH PW RANGING IN THE 1.5 RANGE AND WBZ AROUND 10K WE SHOULD SEE ALL THE ABOVE WITH THESE TS...DAMAGING WINDS... CONTINUOUS LIGHTNING...LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...FLOODING...AND A TORNADO WOULDNT BE OUT OF THE QUESTION. .DLH...NONE. T.ERICKSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Saint Louis | 61 min |
| Jun 22, 7:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DLH | Itasca, Saint Louis | 4 hr |
| Jun 22, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Saint Louis | 57 min |
| Jun 22, 9:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DLH | Saint Louis | 2 hr |
| Jun 22, 10:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DLH | Saint Louis | 97 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.