Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Duluth, MN

July 16, 2003Itasca County, Koochiching County, Minnesota

NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2003, 12:15 PM CDT for Itasca County, Koochiching County, Minnesota. It was in force for 45 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
Jul 16, 2003, 12:15 PM CDT (17:15 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 2003, 1:00 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Duluth, MN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Itasca County, MN, Koochiching County, MN

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:18 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 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 16, 2:20 AM CDT, 9 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 2:20 AM CDT, 9 hours 55 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 16, 7:36 AM CDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before
MNZ010>012-018>021-025-026-033>038-WIZ001>004-006>009-171230-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
736 AM CDT WED JUL 16 2003

...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA AND
NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA TODAY AND TONIGHT...
PRODUCING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND JUST AHEAD OF IT. THE
BEST CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA WILL BE
TODAY AND THIS EVENING...AND ACROSS NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN THIS
AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SOME THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT
MAY BE SEVERE...PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND FREQUENT
LIGHTNING. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL COME TO AN END EARLY
THURSDAY MORNING WHEN THE FRONT FINALLY MOVES SOUTHEAST OF THE AREA.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

&&

MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING URL:

HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/DLH

BERDES

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 1:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHItasca, Saint Louis56 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.