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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Duluth, MN

June 27, 2005Bayfield County, Douglas County, Wisconsin

NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2005, 8:34 PM CDT for Bayfield County, Douglas County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 41 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 27, 2005, 8:34 PM CDT (01:34 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2005, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Duluth, MN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Bayfield County, WI, Douglas County, WI

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:35 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 27, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr
Jun 27, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	3 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 248 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: 1221 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -107 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 960 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.3

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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 27, 2:47 PM CDT, 5 hours 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 2:47 PM CDT, 5 hours 47 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
247 PM CDT MON JUN 27 2005

.DISCUSSION...WILL BE BRIEF WITH SEVERE TSRA ALREADY UNDERWAY. SFC
COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH THE WESTERN PORTION OF THE FA WITH SEVERE
TSRA DEVELOPING RIGHT ALONG THE FRONT. THIS IS ALSO IN THE THETA-E
RIDGE AXIS WHERE BEST INSTABILITY IS LOCATED. THE FRONT WILL
CONTINUE THROUGH THE FA THIS EVENING AND SHOULD EXIT THE WI FA
AROUND MIDNIGHT. TSRA WILL OVERSPREAD THE FA THIS EVENING AND THEN
DIMINISH FROM W TO E OVERNIGHT. THE FRONT STALLS OUT NEAR THE SE
CORNER OF THE WI FA...AND WILL LEAVE A SMALL POP THERE. A SFC HIGH
BUILDS INTO THE FA BEHIND THE FRONT TUESDAY AND LASTS THROUGH TUESDAY
NIGHT. NEXT ROUND OF TSRA ON TAP FOR WEDNESDAY AHEAD OF THE NEXT
COLD FRONT PROGGED TO MOVE TOWARD THE FA.

.AVIATION...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON
AND EVENING AS A COLD FRONT CROSSES THE REGION. THIS THUNDERSTORM
ACTIVITY WILL HAVE IFR-MVFR CIGS AND VSBYS ASSOCIATED WITH
IT...ALONG WITH THE POTENTIAL OF DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND
FREQUENT LIGHTNING. BEHIND THE FRONT...CEILINGS WILL BE IFR-MVFR
TONIGHT AND TUESDAY MORNING.

&&

.DLH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...

MN...NONE.
WI...NONE.

GSF/KFM/STEWART

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 8:35 AM CDT, 11 hours 59 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
835 AM CDT MON JUN 27 2005

MNZ010>012-018>021-025-026-033>038-WIZ001>004-006>009-281230-
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-
835 AM CDT MON JUN 27 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA AND
NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN

...A THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TODAY THROUGH
THURSDAY...

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT ACROSS NORTHEAST MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST WISCONSIN. THE MAIN
THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA
TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. THE MAIN THREATS EACH DAY WILL BE LARGE HAIL
AND DAMAGING WIND. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE
AREA THURSDAY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN SATURDAY NIGHT AND CONTINUE
SUNDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT
ACROSS NORTHEAST MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST WISCONSIN.

&&

MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING URL:

HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/DLH

EOM/GSF

In the hours before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 8:25 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	DLH		65 min
Jun 27, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Washburn	57 min
Jun 27, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Ashland, Iron, Price	60 min
Jun 27, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Sawyer	39 min
Jun 27, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Sawyer	31 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.