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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Duluth, MN

September 23, 20044 counties in Minnesota

NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 23, 2004, 3:58 PM CDT for 4 counties in 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 23, 2004, 3:58 PM CDT (20:58 UTC)
Expired
Sep 23, 2004, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Duluth, MN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Aitkin County, MN, Cass County, MN, Itasca County, MN, Koochiching County, MN

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:01 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

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 143 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, International Fa, MN at 12:00Z on 2004-09-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, International Fa, MN at 12:00Z on 2004-09-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 34 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
579 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Sep 23, 3:07 PM CDT, 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 23, 3:07 PM CDT, 51 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 23, 7:30 AM CDT, 8 hours 28 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
730 AM CDT THU SEP 23 2004

MNZ010>012-018>021-025-026-033>038-WIZ001>004-006>009-241230-
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-
730 AM CDT THU SEP 23 2004

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SHOWERS AND FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS NORTHEASTERN
MINNESOTA AND NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN THIS AFTERNOON INTO
EARLY THIS EVENING.  SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE SEVERE
CONDITIONS...WITH DAMAGING WINDS THE MAIN THREAT.  THE MOST PROBABLE
LOCATION FOR SEVERE STORMS WILL BE ALONG A COLD FRONT THAT WILL
STRETCH ACROSS NORTH-CENTRAL MINNESOTA DOWN INTO THE BRAINERD LAKES
AREA.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. A FEW SHOWERS ARE
EXPECTED FRIDAY AS THE SYSTEM DEPARTS. OTHERWISE DRY CONDITIONS ARE
FORECASTED THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED TODAY OR TONIGHT.

&&

MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING URL:

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

KFM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 23, 3:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHAitkin, Cass, Crow Wing, Itasca52 min
Sep 23, 3:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHCarlton, Pine, Saint Louis60 min
Sep 23, 4:10 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningDLH60 min
Sep 23, 4:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHCarlton, Saint Louis64 min
Sep 23, 4:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHCarlton, Saint Louis63 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004

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.