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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Duluth, MN

July 6, 2003Koochiching County, Minnesota

NWS Duluth, MN issued this tornado warning at Jul 6, 2003, 2:38 PM CDT for Koochiching County, Minnesota. It was in force for 37 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 6, 2003, 2:38 PM CDT (19:38 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 2003, 3:15 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Duluth, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Koochiching County, MN

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 6, 2:20 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 423 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: 735 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -63 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1169 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -10 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

147 
WFUS53 KDLH 061938
TORDLH
MNC071-062015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
238 PM CDT SUN JUL 6 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  KOOCHICHING COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 315 PM CDT

* AT 238 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A FUNNEL
  CLOUD 13 MILES WEST OF BIRCHDALE...OR ABOUT 44 MILES WEST OF
  INTERNATIONAL FALLS...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THIS TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  BIRCHDALE AROUND 305 PM CDT...
  MANITOU AROUND 315 PM CDT...

THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WHICH
WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME AREA. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE
TORNADO...GET TO A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR. IF CAUGHT OUTDOORS...LIE FLAT IN A DITCH OR RAVINE. IF YOU ARE
IN A MOBILE HOME...ABANDON IT AND GO TO A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING. AS
A LAST RESORT...LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD

&

LAT...LON 4867 9452 4849 9447 4854 9355 4881 9361

$$
WJC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 6, 2:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Koochiching	43 min
Jul 6, 3:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Koochiching	24 min
Jul 6, 3:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Koochiching	53 min
Jul 6, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Saint Louis	59 min
Jul 6, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Saint Louis	62 min
Jul 6, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Itasca	34 min
Jul 6, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Cass, Itasca	51 min
Jul 6, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Koochiching, Saint Louis	64 min
Jul 6, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Cass, Itasca	30 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.