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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 501
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 19, 2005, 8:50 PM CDT for Koochiching County, Saint Louis County, Minnesota. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 2005, 8:50 PM CDT (01:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2005, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Koochiching County, MN, Saint Louis County, MN
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 194 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:51 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.
Warnings issued inside it
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Koochiching | 62 min |
| Jun 19, 10:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Koochiching | 62 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 40 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
- 1727 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1461 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 7.9
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 7:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Koochiching, Lake of the Woods and 7 more | 118 min |
| Jun 20, 5:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Clay, Douglas, Grant, Otter Tail, Traverse and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 20, 7:39 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Clay, Douglas, Grant, Mahnomen, Norman and 4 more | 96 min |
| Jun 20, 9:19 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Clay, Douglas, Grant, Mahnomen, Norman and 4 more | 56 min |
| Jun 20, 10:42 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Clay, Douglas, Grant, Mahnomen, Norman and 4 more | 63 min |
| Jun 20, 10:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Carver, Chippewa, Dakota, Douglas and 17 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 20, 12:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago and 30 more | 91 min |
| Jun 20, 1:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Faribault, Freeborn, Jackson and 17 more | 7 hr |
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.