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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 106, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 3, 2005, 8:26 PM CDT for Pine County, Minnesota. It was in force for 34 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
- Oct 3, 2005, 8:26 PM CDT (01:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 3, 2005, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 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 01:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2060 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1438 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 318 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 3.6
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 Oct 3, 2:30 PM CDT, 5 hours 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 3, 2:30 PM CDT, 5 hours 56 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 3, 7:14 AM CDT, 13 hours 12 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 714 AM CDT MON OCT 3 2005 MNZ010>012-018>021-025-026-033>038-WIZ001>004-006>009-041230- KOOCHICHING-NORTHERN ST. LOUIS-NORTHERN COOK/NORTHERN LAKE- NORTHERN ITASCA-CENTRAL ST. LOUIS-SOUTHERN LAKE/LAKESHORE- SOUTHERN COOK/LAKESHORE-NORTHERN CASS-SOUTHERN ITASCA- SOUTHERN CASS-CROW WING-NORTHERN AITKIN-SOUTHERN AITKIN- CARLTON/SOUTHERN ST. LOUIS-PINE-DOUGLAS-BAYFIELD-ASHLAND-IRON- BURNETT-WASHBURN-SAWYER-PRICE- 714 AM CDT MON OCT 3 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST WISCONSIN. ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS THIS AFTERNOON INTO TUESDAY NIGHT... .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT OVER MUCH OF THE NORTHLAND. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE LATER THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING...MAINLY SOUTH OF LINE ARCING FROM THE BRAINERD LAKES AREA...TO TWO HARBORS...TO PHILLIPS WISCONSIN. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS WITH THE STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE TUESDAY INTO TUESDAY NIGHT...MAINLY SOUTH SOUTH OF A HINCKLEY...TO GORDON...TO CABLE...TO MERCER LINE. HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE...MAINLY TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING ACROSS MUCH OF THE NORTHLAND. STRONG WINDS...ESPECIALLY OVER LAKE SUPERIOR...ARE EXPECTED TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY AND WILL CREATE CONDITIONS HAZARDOUS FOR SMALL CRAFT. COLD AIR WILL BE MOVING INTO THE NORTHLAND WEDNESDAY...AND SOME SNOW IS POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY NIGHT...ESPECIALLY OVER THE NORTHERN THIRD OF MINNESOTA. SOME LIGHT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS ARE POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. MELDE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 9:14 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | DLH | 31 min | |
| Oct 3, 9:46 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | DLH | 44 min | |
| Oct 3, 11:03 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | DLH | 42 min | |
| Oct 3, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Douglas | 29 min |
| Oct 3, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Bayfield | 25 min |
| Oct 3, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Ashland, Bayfield | 32 min |
| Oct 4, 4:22 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DLH | Bayfield | 5 hr |
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.