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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Duluth, MN

July 2, 2003Cass County, Crow Wing County, Minnesota

NWS Duluth, MN issued this tornado warning at Jul 2, 2003, 6:43 PM CDT for Cass County, Crow Wing 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 2, 2003, 6:43 PM CDT (23:43 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 2003, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Duluth, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Cass County, MN, Crow Wing County, MN

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 173 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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 2, 2:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 205 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: 675 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -211 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1181 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

876 
WFUS53 KDLH 022343
TORDLH
MNC021-035-030045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
642 PM CDT WED JUL 2 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CROW WING COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  SOUTHERN CASS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 642 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER POPLAR...OR
  ABOUT 29 MILES NORTHWEST OF BRAINERD...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THIS TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  JENKINS AROUND 710 PM...
  PEQUOT LAKES AROUND 715 PM...
  CROSS LAKE AROUND 730 PM...

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 4667 9481 4649 9481 4643 9393 4673 9392

$$

CRS/EJS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 2, 4:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Cook, Lake	50 min
Jul 2, 5:08 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	DLH		2 hr
Jul 2, 5:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Cook, Lake	62 min
Jul 2, 7:04 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	DLH		116 min
Jul 2, 7:04 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	DLH		116 min
Jul 2, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Cass, Itasca, Koochiching	52 min
Jul 2, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Cass, Itasca	55 min
Jul 2, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Koochiching	60 min
Jul 2, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Saint Louis	60 min
Jul 2, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Aitkin	57 min
Jul 2, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Cass	63 min
Jul 2, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Saint Louis	59 min
Jul 2, 6:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DLH	Cass	59 min
Jul 2, 6:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DLH	Cass	57 min
Jul 2, 6:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DLH	Aitkin, Itasca	65 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.