Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this tornado warning at Jul 21, 2002, 12:13 AM CDT for Burnett County, Washburn County, Wisconsin; Pine County, Minnesota. It was in force for 62 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
- Jul 21, 2002, 12:13 AM CDT (05:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2002, 1:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Pine County, MN, Burnett County, WI, Washburn County, WI
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 4791 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 842 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 269 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 412 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 7.4
- Supercell composite
- 49.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KDLH 210524 TORDLH MNC115-WIC013-129-210615- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED...RETRANSMITTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 1213 AM CDT SUN JUL 21 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... PINE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... NORTHERN BURNETT COUNTY IN NORTHWEST WISCONSIN... NORTHERN WASHBURN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST WISCONSIN * UNTIL 115 AM CDT * AT 1213 AM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTH OF SANDSTONE...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF HINCKLEY... MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THIS TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... DUXBURY AROUND 1230 AM... CLOVERTON AROUND 1245 AM... RIVERSIDE AROUND 1250 AM... THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME AREA. .END LAT...LON 4621 9299 4603 9299 4600 9169 4613 9172 GSF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 12:24 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Burnett, Washburn | 51 min |
| Jul 21, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Ashland, Iron, Price, Sawyer | 62 min |
| Jul 21, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Iron, Price | 52 min |
| Jul 20, 11:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Crow Wing, Pine | 63 min |
| Jul 21, 7:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cass, Crow Wing | 49 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Wisconsin, 2002Tornado Warnings in Minnesota, 2002Every tornado warning in 2002Tornadoes in 2002
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.