Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Duluth, MN
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.
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
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.
- 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
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
&&
BRANDTLocal storm report, Aug 3, 4:49 PM CDT, 56 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Service Notice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
<main class="wrap">
<section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
<div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
<h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
<p id="message1">
The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
</p>
<p id="message2">
Please try again in a few minutes.
</p>
<p class="small" id="detail">
If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
</p>
</section>
</main>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>Local storm report, Aug 3, 4:56 PM CDT, 49 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Service Notice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
<main class="wrap">
<section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
<div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
<h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
<p id="message1">
The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
</p>
<p id="message2">
Please try again in a few minutes.
</p>
<p class="small" id="detail">
If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
</p>
</section>
</main>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 8:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Lake | 33 min |
| 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 |
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.