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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Duluth, MN

August 3, 2005Bayfield County, Douglas County, Wisconsin

NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2005, 5:45 PM CDT for Bayfield County, Douglas County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 27 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, 5:45 PM CDT (22:45 UTC)
Expired
Aug 3, 2005, 6:12 PM CDT
In force
27 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 22:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2005-08-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2010 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, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2005-08-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -20 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2010 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-180 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
759 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Aug 3, 3:10 PM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 3:10 PM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
310 PM CDT WED AUG 3 2005

.DISCUSSION...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ACROSS OUR
MINNESOTA ZONES THIS AFTERNOON...ALONG AND AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT
THAT IS NOW OVER OUR WRN FCST AREA. THIS THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL
CONTINUE THROUGH THIS EVENING...SPREADING FARTHER SOUTH AND EAST
WITH TIME. ETA40 MUCAPE VALUES THIS AFTERNOON RANGE FROM 2000 J/KG
NORTH...TO 5000 J/KG ACROSS WISCONSIN. CURRENT TEMPS AND DEW POINTS
DO SEEM TO SUPPORT THESE CAPE VALUES...ALTHOUGH ETA40 SOUNDINGS
SHOW THAT LAPSE RATES ABOVE 850MB ARE NOT THAT IMPRESSIVE. 0-3KM
HELICITY VALUES ARE FAIRLY LOW TOO...BUT THERE SHOULD BE ENOUGH
INSTABILITY AND VERTICAL WIND SHEAR TO SUPPORT ISOLATED SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL PER SPC. THIS FRONT
WILL MOVE EAST OF OUR CWA AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT...WITH DRIER AND
COOLER AIR ADVECTING SOUTHEAST ACROSS OUR CWA ON THURSDAY. HIGH
PRESSURE WILL THEN BUILD IN ACROSS THE MIDWEST THURSDAY NIGHT AND
FRIDAY...KEEPING CONDITIONS DRY. A WARMING TREND WILL START FRIDAY AS
THE CENTER HIGH DRIFTS OFF TO THE EAST AND RETURN FLOW/WAA DEVELOPS
ACROSS THE UPPER MIDWEST.

&&

.AVIATION...VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL ACROSS NE MN AND NW WI
TONIGHT...ALTHOUGH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BRING SOME IFR/MVFR
CONDITIONS AT TIMES. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL GRADUALLY END
OVERNIGHT...LEAVING MAINLY VFR CONDITIONS ON THURSDAY.

&&

.DLH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...

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

BERDES/DAP
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 3, 7:05 AM CDT, 10 hours 40 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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 3, 4:21 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
421 PM CDT WED AUG 03 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0414 PM     TSTM WND GST     HERMANTOWN              46.81N 92.24W
08/03/2005  60 MPH           SOUTHEAST ST. LOUI MN   AMATEUR RADIO

            AT INTERSECTION OF HWY 2 AND HWY 53

&&

BRANDT
Local storm report, Aug 3, 4:49 PM CDT, 56 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 8:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHLake33 min
Aug 3, 3:18 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHSaint Louis42 min
Aug 3, 3:58 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHSaint Louis32 min
Aug 3, 4:28 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHSaint Louis47 min
Aug 3, 4:45 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningDLH30 min
Aug 3, 4:44 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHDouglas61 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 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.