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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Duluth, MN

April 6, 2005Pine County, Minnesota

NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 6, 2005, 12:57 AM CDT for Pine County, Minnesota. It was in force for 48 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
Apr 6, 2005, 12:57 AM CDT (05:57 UTC)
Expired
Apr 6, 2005, 1:45 AM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Duluth, MN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pine County, MN

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:58 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 nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 156 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, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 2005-04-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1022 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 2005-04-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 41 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
1022 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1015 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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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.