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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Duluth, MN

June 19, 2005Koochiching County, Minnesota

NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2005, 8:41 PM CDT for Koochiching County, Minnesota. It was in force for 64 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 19, 2005, 8:41 PM CDT (01:41 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2005, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Duluth, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Koochiching County, MN

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 214 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:41 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

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 95 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1727 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1461 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 7.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KDLH 200147
SVRDLH
MNC071-200245-
/O.NEW.KDLH.SV.W.0021.050620T0141Z-050620T0245Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
841 PM CDT SUN JUN 19 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DULUTH MN HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  KOOCHICHING COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 945 PM CDT

* AT 841 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  TWO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS. 
  THE WINDS MAY EXCEED 70 MPH. ONE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 30
  MILES NORTH OF BEMIDJI...AND ANOTHER WAS LOCATED ABOUT 35 MILES
  WEST OF INTERNATIONAL FALLS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 
  MPH.  

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  NORTHOME AND GEMMELL BY 905 PM CDT
  BIRCHDALE BY 910 PM
  MARGIE BY 915 PM 
  BIG FALLS BY 930 PM

REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR 
NO ADVANCE WARNING. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED... ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE 
TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR 
SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.

LAT...LON 4812 9480 4794 9475 4801 9371 4828 9378

$$

DAP

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KDLH 200215
SVSDLH

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
912 PM CDT SUN JUN 19 2005

MNC071-200245-
/O.CON.KDLH.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-050620T0245Z/
KOOCHICHING MN-
912 PM CDT SUN JUN 19 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR
KOOCHICHING COUNTY...

AT 912 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS TO 70 MPH.
THE FIRST STORM WAS LOCATED 43 MILES NORTHEAST OF BEMIDJI...OR NEAR 
NORTHOME. THE SECOND STORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 20 MILES WEST OF 
INTERNATIONAL FALLS...NEAR BIRCHDALE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT
35 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  NORTHOME AND GEMMELL BY 920 PM
  INDUS BY 920 PM
  
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT MONDAY
MORNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA.

LAT...LON 4812 9480 4794 9475 4801 9371 4828 9378

$$

DAP

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 19, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Koochiching	62 min
Jun 19, 10:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Koochiching	62 min
Jun 20, 1:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Itasca	29 min
Jun 20, 10:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Cass	70 min
Jun 20, 11:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Crow Wing	59 min
Jun 20, 12:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Aitkin	61 min
Jun 20, 1:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Carlton	60 min
Jun 20, 1:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Pine	42 min
Jun 20, 1:17 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	DLH		88 min

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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.