Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2006, 7:45 AM CDT for Koochiching County, Minnesota. It was in force for 30 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
- May 28, 2006, 7:45 AM CDT (12:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2006, 8:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Koochiching County, MN
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 196 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:45 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, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 1900 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -144 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 990 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
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 May 28, 4:17 AM CDT, 3 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 28, 4:17 AM CDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 417 AM CDT SUN MAY 28 2006 .DISCUSSION...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE SPREAD ACROSS OUR NWRN WI ZONES THIS MORNING...WHICH DEVELOPED AHEAD OF AN UPPER LEVEL SHORTWAVE PROPAGATING NEWD THROUGH SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT. STRONG INSTABILITY COMBINED WITH SUFFICIENT VERTICAL WIND SHEAR HAS RESULTED IN SEVERE HAIL ACROSS MUCH OF WISCONSIN SINCE YESTERDAY EVENING. HOWEVER ACROSS OUR CWA...THIS ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO DIMINISH AND MOVE EAST OF OUR CWA AROUND SUNRISE. STRONG SOUTHERLY FLOW WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE UPPER MIDWEST TODAY AHEAD OF A FAIRLY STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM AND COLD FRONT OVER THE DAKOTAS. BECAUSE OF THIS SOUTHERLY FLOW AND RESULTING WAA...WARM AIR ALOFT SHOULD INHIBIT CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT TODAY...ESPECIALLY WITHOUT ANY ORGANIZED FORCING MECHANISM NEAR OUR CWA. HOWEVER LIKE YESTERDAY...THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE ERN DAKOTAS AND WRN MN LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING ALONG A COLD FRONT PROGRESSING EWRD ACROSS THIS AREA. THIS ACTIVITY SHOULD TRACK EWRD TONIGHT. REACHING OUR WRN ZONES AROUND MIDNIGHT TONIGHT...WITH SOME FURTHER PROGRESSION EWRD MONDAY MORNING. THUNDERSTORMS WILL THEN REDEVELOP ALONG THE COLD FRONT AND INTENSIFY ACROSS OUR FCST AREA LATE MONDAY MORNING OR EARLY MONDAY AFTERNOON AS THE ATMOSPHERE DESTABILIZES. THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD REACH THE TWIN PORTS AREA BY MID-AFTERNOON...THEN CONTINUE TO MOVE EWRD ACROSS THE REST OF OUR CWA DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL END FROM WEST TO EAST WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE COLD FRONT...HOWEVER THEY SHOULD CONTINUE TO AFFECT THE ERN TWO THIRDS OVER OUR FCST AREA THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT. ETA40 MUCAPE VALUES ARE PROGGED TO INCREASE TO THE 4000-6000 J/KG RANGE BY MIDDAY ON MONDAY...ALTHOUGH THIS IS PROBABLY SOMEWHAT OVERDONE DUE TO UNREALISTICALLY HIGH DEW POINT TEMPERATURES. IN ANY EVENT STRONG INSTABILITY IS ANTICIPATED MONDAY INTO MONDAY EVENING. HOWEVER THE VERTICAL DEEP LAYER WIND SHEAR IS NOT EXPECTED BE AS FAVORABLE COMPARED TO YESTERDAY...MAINLY DUE TO WEAK DIRECTIONAL SHEAR. BUT EVEN SO...HELICITY VALUES SHOULD BE SUFFICIENT CONSIDERING THE DEGREE OF INSTABILITY TO RESULT IN SOME SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING DAMAGING WINDS. TEMPERATURES WILL BE VERY WARM TODAY ACROSS OUR WRN AND SRN ZONES TODAY. HOWEVER COOLER CONDITIONS ARE AGAIN EXPECTED FOR AREAS NEAR LAKE SUPERIOR...ALTHOUGH READINGS SHOULD NOT BE AS COOL AS YESTERDAY. SLIGHTLY COOLER TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED FOR MONDAY DUE TO INCREASED CLOUD COVER AND POTENTIAL THUNDERSTORMS. && .DLH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MN...NONE. WI...NONE. LS...NONE. BERDES
Hazardous weather outlook, May 28, 6:45 AM CDT, 1 hour before
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Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 8:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Koochiching | 29 min |
| May 28, 8:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Saint Louis | 26 min |
| May 28, 8:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Koochiching | 17 min |
| May 28, 8:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Saint Louis | 43 min |
| May 28, 9:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Saint Louis | 29 min |
| May 28, 9:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Saint Louis | 61 min |
| May 28, 9:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Lake | 45 min |
| May 28, 10:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Saint Louis | 32 min |
| May 28, 10:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Lake | 47 min |
| May 28, 10:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cook | 65 min |
| May 28, 11:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Lake | 50 min |
| May 28, 11:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cook | 64 min |
| May 28, 11:46 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | DLH | 89 min | |
| May 28, 12:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cook | 34 min |
| May 28, 1:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Sawyer | 26 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006
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.