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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this tornado warning at Aug 5, 2006, 8:14 PM CDT for Koochiching County, Minnesota. It was in force for 61 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 5, 2006, 8:14 PM CDT (01:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2006, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 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 01:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 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
- 1048 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -122 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1424 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 252 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The office that day
Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Koochiching, Saint Louis | 43 min |
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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.