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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 81, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2005, 8:08 AM CDT for Lake County, Minnesota. It was in force for 33 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
- Aug 3, 2005, 8:08 AM CDT (13:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2005, 8:41 AM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lake County, MN
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 12:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 911 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 864 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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 Aug 2, 3:00 PM CDT, 17 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 3:00 PM CDT, 17 hours 8 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 3, 7:05 AM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 705 AM CDT WED AUG 3 2005 MNZ010>012-018>021-025-026-033>038-WIZ001>004-006>009-041230- 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- 705 AM CDT WED AUG 3 2005 ...SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR A PORTION OF NORTHEAST MINNESOTA AND ALL OF NORTHWEST WISCONSIN TODAY AND TONIGHT... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA AND NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SOUTH OF LINE FROM PARK RAPIDS TO GRAND RAPIDS TO SILVER BAY. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. && MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING URL: HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/DLH STEWART
The office that day
Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 3:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Saint Louis | 42 min |
| Aug 3, 3:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Saint Louis | 32 min |
| Aug 3, 4:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Saint Louis | 47 min |
| Aug 3, 4:45 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | DLH | 30 min | |
| Aug 3, 4:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Douglas | 61 min |
| Aug 3, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Bayfield, Douglas | 27 min |
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.