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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2005, 3:07 AM CDT for Crow Wing County, Minnesota. It was in force for 23 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
- Jun 8, 2005, 3:07 AM CDT (08:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2005, 3:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 23 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 08:07 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 1:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 395 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2261 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
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 Jun 7, 3:28 PM CDT, 11 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 3:28 PM CDT, 11 hours 39 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
328 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005
.DISCUSSION...A WARM FRONT EXTENDING ACROSS CENTRAL MINNESOTA INTO
NORTHERN WISCONSIN WILL BE A FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT
LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING...ALONG WITH AN UPPER
LEVEL SHORTWAVE TRACKING NORTH ACROSS THE REGION. SOME OF THESE
STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE WITH ETA40 0-3KM MUCAPE VALUES
RANGING FROM 2000 TO 4000 J/KG ACROSS OUR SRN TIER OF ZONES. 0-3KM
HELICITY VALUES ARE MODEST...BUT WELL INTO THE FAVORABLE RANGE
FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS INCLUDING SUPERCELLS. AS A RESULT A WATCH
HAS BEEN ISSUED THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING FOR SEVERAL OF OUR SRN
ZONES. AS MENTIONED YESTERDAY...CAPE VALUES DECREASE RAPIDLY FARTHER
NORTH WITH AN COOL ONSHORE WIND. HOWEVER WE DO STILL EXPECT SOME
ELEVATED CONVECTION IN THIS AREA TONIGHT. ANY THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY
ONGOING THIS EVENING IS EXPECTED TO LIFT NORTH AHEAD OF A SHORTWAVE
BY AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT THEN SPREAD ACROSS THE REST OF OUR CWA
WEDNESDAY MORNING. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS EXPECTED
TOMORROW ACROSS ALL OF OUR CWA AS WELL...AS AN OCCLUDED FRONT
TRACKS EAST ACROSS THE CWA...WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN
POSSIBLE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL END FAIRLY QUICKLY AFTER THE FRONT
PASSES WEDNESDAY NIGHT. DRY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED FOR THURSDAY
MORNING...WITH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS THE SRN HALF OF
OUR CWA THURSDAY AFTERNOON AHEAD OF THE NEXT SYSTEM.
&&
.AVIATION...THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE WIDESPREAD TONIGHT...THEN CIGS
WILL BECOME MVFR-IFR WITH AREAS OF FG AND DZ.
&&
.DLH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
MN...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM WEDNESDAY FOR MNZ025...
MNZ033...MNZ034...MNZ035...MNZ036.
TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM TUESDAY FOR MNZ038.
WI...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM TUESDAY FOR WIZ006...
WIZ007...WIZ008.
BERDES/CLCHazardous weather outlook, Jun 7, 7:00 AM CDT, 20 hours 7 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 700 AM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005 MNZ010>012-018>021-025-026-033>038-WIZ001>004-006>009-081230- 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- 700 AM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005 ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... ...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT TODAY AND TONIGHT FOR CASS...CROW WING AND AITKIN COUNTIES... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA AND NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE MAIN HAZARDS ARE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND. HEAVY RAIN WILL ACCOMPANY SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS...ESPECIALLY FROM LONGVILLE TO AITKIN AND THE BRAINERD LAKES AREA. A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THESE AREAS TODAY AND TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER ALL OF NORTHEAST MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST WISCONSIN WEDNESDAY. THE MAIN HAZARDS WILL BE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN. THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN IN THE FORECAST WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY WITH A BRIEF BREAK FRIDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT FROM BRAINERD INTO NORTHWEST WISCONSIN. && MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING URL: HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/DLH GSF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 2:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cass | 37 min |
| Jun 8, 3:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Crow Wing | 37 min |
| Jun 8, 4:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Pine | 33 min |
Nearby
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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.