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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2006, 4:11 AM CDT for Douglas County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 35 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
- Jul 16, 2006, 4:11 AM CDT (09:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 2006, 4:46 AM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Douglas County, WI
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 1:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 402 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -503 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2726 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 217 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 395 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 Jul 16, 2:45 AM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 2:45 AM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 1155 AM CDT SAT JUL 15 2006 LSZ121-140>148-162-MNZ010>012-018>021-025-026-033>038-WIZ001>004- 006>009-161245- BAYFIELD TO OAK POINT WI-GRAND PORTAGE TO GRAND MARAIS MN- GRAND MARAIS TO TACONITE HARBOR MN- TACONITE HARBOR TO SILVER BAY HARBOR MN- SILVER BAY HARBOR TO TWO HARBORS MN-TWO HARBORS TO DULUTH MN- DULUTH MN TO PORT WING WI-PORT WING TO SAND ISLAND WI- SAND ISLAND TO BAYFIELD WI-OAK POINT TO SAXON HARBOR WI- OPEN WATERS OF LAKE SUPERIOR WEST OF A LINE FROM SAXON HARBOR WI TO GRAND PORTAGE MN-KOOCHICHING-NORTHERN ST. LOUIS- NORTHERN COOK/NORTHERN LAKE-NORTHERN ITASCA-CENTRAL ST. LOUIS- SOUTHERN LAKE/LAKESHORE-SOUTHERN COOK/LAKESHORE-NORTHERN CASS- SOUTHERN ITASCA-SOUTHERN CASS-CROW WING-NORTHERN AITKIN- SOUTHERN AITKIN-CARLTON/SOUTHERN ST. LOUIS-PINE-DOUGLAS-BAYFIELD- ASHLAND-IRON-BURNETT-WASHBURN-SAWYER-PRICE- 1155 AM CDT SAT JUL 15 2006 ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST MINNESOTA... NORTHWEST WISCONSIN AND WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT FOR MOST AREAS ACROSS THE NORTHLAND. IF THUNDERSTORMS DO DEVELOP...SOME MAY BE SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. EXPECT INCREASED FIRE DANGER ACROSS THE NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA AND NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING DUE TO GUSTY WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND VERY WARM TEMPERATURES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY MORNING...AND AGAIN TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. AT THIS TIME...THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. BERDES
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 16, 1:56 AM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jul 16, 1:12 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | DLH | 33 min | |
| Jul 16, 1:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cook, Lake | 62 min |
| Jul 16, 1:38 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | DLH | 52 min | |
| Jul 16, 1:48 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | DLH | 42 min | |
| Jul 16, 2:28 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | DLH | 52 min | |
| Jul 16, 2:30 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | DLH | 30 min | |
| Jul 16, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Lake, Saint Louis | 61 min |
| Jul 16, 5:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Lake, Saint Louis | 67 min |
| Jul 16, 5:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Cook, Lake | 62 min |
| Jul 16, 5:35 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | DLH | 55 min | |
| Jul 16, 6:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Cook, Lake | 56 min |
| Jul 16, 6:26 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | DLH | 49 min | |
| Jul 16, 1:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Ashland, Iron | 62 min |
| Jul 16, 2:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Bayfield | 30 min |
| Jul 16, 2:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Ashland, Iron | 20 min |
| Jul 16, 3:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Douglas | 23 min |
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.