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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 535

June 27, 200514 counties in Minnesota; Burnett County, Douglas County, Wisconsin

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 27, 2005, 1:25 PM CDT for 14 counties in Minnesota; Burnett County, Douglas County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 27, 2005, 1:25 PM CDT (18:25 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 2005, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Aitkin County, MN, Benton County, MN, Carlton County, MN, Cass County, MN, Cook County, MN, Crow Wing County, MN, Itasca County, MN, Kanabec County, MN, Lake County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Pine County, MN, Saint Louis County, MN, Todd County, MN, Burnett County, WI, Douglas County, WI

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 1:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHCass46 min
Jun 27, 1:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHItasca53 min
Jun 27, 2:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHCass21 min
Jun 27, 3:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHSaint Louis47 min
Jun 27, 3:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHAitkin50 min
Jun 27, 3:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHItasca28 min
Jun 27, 4:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHSaint Louis43 min
Jun 27, 4:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHSaint Louis21 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 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 206 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 12:00Z on 2005-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 500 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 12:00Z on 2005-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 106 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
500 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-160 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1546 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
106 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
144 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.7

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 7:08 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBecker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard, Lake of the Woods and 9 more2 hr
Jun 26, 7:40 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAitkin, Carlton, Cass, Crow Wing, Itasca2 hr
Jun 26, 8:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCClay, Kittson, Norman, Traverse, Wilkin8 hr
Jun 26, 9:58 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Kittson, Norman, Traverse, Wilkin92 min
Jun 26, 10:20 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBecker, Beltrami, Cass, Clearwater, Hubbard, Itasca and 8 more115 min
Jun 26, 11:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBecker, Beltrami, Cass, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard and 11 more6 hr
Jun 27, 1:51 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Polk, Wilkin54 min
Jun 27, 2:59 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCHubbard, Koochiching61 min
Jun 27, 12:29 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAitkin, Benton, Brown, Carlton, Cass, Chippewa and 22 more2 hr
Jun 27, 2:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAnoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood and 31 more7 hr
Jun 27, 3:37 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAitkin, Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carlton and 53 more83 min
Jun 27, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAnoka, Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, Pine, Ramsey and 1 more3 hr
Jun 27, 6:02 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Dakota, Dodge and 25 more118 min
Jun 27, 1:14 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Crawford, Florence, Forest, Juneau, Langlade and 15 more2 hr
Jun 27, 3:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAshland, Bayfield, Florence, Forest, Iron, Langlade and 7 more7 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.