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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Duluth, MN

September 5, 2005Crow Wing County, Minnesota

NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 5, 2005, 11:27 PM CDT for Crow Wing County, Minnesota. It was in force for 32 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 5, 2005, 11:27 PM CDT (04:27 UTC)
Expired
Sep 5, 2005, 11:59 PM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Duluth, MN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Crow Wing County, MN

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 5, 8:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 239 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 00:00Z on 2005-09-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 807 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, International Fa, MN at 00:00Z on 2005-09-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 111 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
807 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-197 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1413 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
197 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 5, 9:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHCass64 min
Sep 5, 10:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHCass34 min
Sep 5, 10:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHItasca36 min
Sep 5, 10:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHCrow Wing45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.