Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 28, 2003, 5:11 PM CDT for Aitkin County, Cass County, Crow Wing County, Minnesota. It was in force for 64 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 28, 2003, 5:11 PM CDT (22:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 2003, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Aitkin County, MN, Cass County, MN, Crow Wing County, MN
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 1207 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
486 WFUS53 KDLH 282211 TORDLH MNC001-021-035-282315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 511 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CROW WING COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA NORTHERN CASS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA NORTHERN AITKIN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 511 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 7 MILES EAST OF WABEDO...OR ABOUT 32 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GRAND RAPIDS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THIS TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... OUTING AROUND 530 PM CDT... EMILY AROUND 535 PM CDT... LITTLE PINE AROUND 545 PM CDT... IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...GO TO A BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME... CAMPER OR ARE CAUGHT OUTDOORS SEEK STURDY SHELTER. AS A LAST RESORT...LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD LAT...LON 4705 9405 4691 9422 4661 9375 4680 9347 $$ MELDE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Itasca | 50 min |
| Jun 28, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cass | 32 min |
| Jun 28, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Itasca | 48 min |
| Jun 28, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cass | 29 min |
| Jun 28, 6:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Crow Wing | 59 min |
| Jun 28, 6:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Crow Wing | 23 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.