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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Duluth, MN

July 20, 2005Koochiching County, Minnesota

NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 2005, 12:48 AM CDT for Koochiching County, Minnesota. It was in force for 62 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
Jul 20, 2005, 12:48 AM CDT (05:48 UTC)
Expired
Jul 20, 2005, 1:50 AM CDT
In force
62 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), 196 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:50 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, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 51 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 2005-07-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 266 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 2005-07-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 214 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
266 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-222 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1392 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
214 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
422 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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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.