Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 2004, 3:44 PM CDT for Price County, Sawyer County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 61 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
- Aug 1, 2004, 3:44 PM CDT (20:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2004, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Price County, WI, Sawyer County, WI
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:46 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 245 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
- 665 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -151 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 903 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
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 Aug 1, 3:15 PM CDT, 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 1, 3:15 PM CDT, 29 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 315 PM CDT SUN AUG 1 2004 .DISCUSSION...MAIN FOCUS FOR TONIGHT IS THUNDERSTORMS. MODELS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH OVERALL FEATURES OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS...BUT DIFFER WITH RESPECT TO QPF, WHICH IS TYPICAL THIS TIME OF YEAR. ETA HAS BEEN FAIRLY CONSISTENT WITH ITS FORECAST OF QPF OVER NORTHERN MINNESOTA...SO WILL SIDE WITH ETA. WILL CUT BACK A LITTLE ON QPF...BUT OTHERWISE GO PRETTY CLOSE TO ETA QPF. THE ATMOSPHERE OVER OUR CWA IS SPLIT BETWEEN MORE STABLE AIR IN THE NORTHWEST PART OF THE CWA...TO MORE UNSTABLE OVER THE SE HALF. LIS OFF MSAS RANGE FROM AROUND ZERO AT INL TO -6 IN PINE CITY. IT LOOKS LIKE THE LESS STABLE AIR WILL REMAIN POISED OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE CWA. THINK ONLY ISOLATED STORMS WILL OCCUR THIS EVENING...MAINLY ON THE EDGE OF THE OUTFLOW FROM LAST NIGHTS CONVECTION OVER EC MN/NW WI...AND ALSO ALONG THE WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY SAGGING ACROSS NE MN. THE BETTER CHANCE WILL COME TOWARD MIDNIGHT...AS A WAVE DROPPING OUT OF SASKATCHEWAN WILL SET OFF A POTENTIAL MCS. THINK THIS FEATURE WILL BRING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. IF ETA IS CORRECT...IT COULD BE A BIT MORE WIDESPREAD THAN CURRENT THINKING. SUPPORT FROM THE H3 JET AND H7 MODEL OMEGA SHOULD HELP THE BATCH OF PRECIP TO GET GOING. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE OUT OF THE AREA ON MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT. CURRENT THINKING IS THAT THE CHANCE OF SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS ON TUESDAY WILL BE JUST SOUTH OF THE CWA. GFS SUFFERING FROM SEVERE CONVECTIVE FEEDBACK...SO ETA IS THE WAY TO GO. WILL HOLD OFF FOR NOW. OTHERWISE...DRY HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD IN FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK...WITH MORE SPOTTY PRECIPITATION POSSIBLE AGAIN BY THE WEEKEND AS A FRONTAL BOUNDARY APPROACHES FROM THE WEST. MOS TEMPS ARE ALL OVER THE PLACE. WHERE IM EXPECTING SUNSHINE... WILL GO WITH THE WARMER ETA TEMPS DURING THE DAY...AND COOLER TEMPS AT NIGHT UNDER THE INCOMING HIGH. .DLH...WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES MN...NONE. WI...NONE. DAP
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 1, 8:09 AM CDT, 7 hours 35 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 809 AM CDT SUN AUG 1 2004 MNZ010>012-018>021-025-026-033>038-WIZ001>004-006>009-021230- ASHLAND-BAYFIELD-BURNETT-C. ST. LOUIS-CROW WING-DOUGLAS-IRON- KOOCHICHING-N. AITKIN-N. CASS-N. ITASCA-N. LAKE/N. COOK-N. ST. LOUIS- PINE-PRICE-S. AITKIN-S. CASS-S. COOK/LAKESHORE-S. ITASCA- S. LAKE/LAKESHORE-S. ST. LOUIS/CARLTON-SAWYER-WASHBURN- 809 AM CDT SUN AUG 1 2004 ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE TODAY AND TONIGHT... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA AND NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP LATE TODAY IN WESTERN AND CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND CONTINUE TONIGHT. LARGE HAIL AND VERY STRONG WINDS ARE POSSIBLE IN THE BRAINERD AREA TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO MONDAY MORNING. SOME MAY BE SEVERE IN NORTHWEST WISCONSIN. OTHERWISE...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED FOR TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT IN NORTHEAST MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST WISCONSIN. && MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING URL: HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/DLH CS
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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.