Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 2007, 5:32 PM CDT for Itasca County, Koochiching County, Minnesota. It was in force for 43 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 23, 2007, 5:32 PM CDT (22:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2007, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Itasca County, MN, Koochiching County, MN
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 168 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:35 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -257 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1504 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KDLH 232233 TORDLH MNC061-071-232315- /O.NEW.KDLH.TO.W.0013.070623T2232Z-070623T2315Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 532 PM CDT SAT JUN 23 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DULUTH MN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN KOOCHICHING COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... NORTHERN ITASCA COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 531 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF EFFIE...OR ABOUT 49 MILES SOUTHWEST OF INTERNATIONAL FALLS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... EFFIE BY 600 PM CDT... BIGFORK BY 610 PM CDT... THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 4807 9385 4798 9407 4763 9376 4774 9350 $$ DAP
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KDLH 232257 SVSDLH SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 556 PM CDT SAT JUN 23 2007 MNC061-071-232315- /O.CON.KDLH.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-070623T2315Z/ KOOCHICHING MN-ITASCA MN- 556 PM CDT SAT JUN 23 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR NORTHERN ITASCA AND SOUTHERN KOOCHICHING COUNTIES... AT 552 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A DEVELOPING TORNADO. THIS DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS LOCATED 7 MILES WEST OF EFFIE...OR ABOUT 46 MILES NORTH OF GRAND RAPIDS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... EFFIE BY 605 PM CDT... BIGFORK BY 615 PM CDT... THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 4802 9376 4794 9401 4763 9376 4775 9343 $$ DAP
000
WWUS53 KDLH 232316
SVSDLH
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
616 PM CDT SAT JUN 23 2007
MNC071-232326-
/O.EXP.KDLH.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-070623T2315Z/
KOOCHICHING MN-
616 PM CDT SAT JUN 23 2007
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHERN KOOCHICHING COUNTY EXPIRES AT 615
PM CDT...
THE STORM PRODUCING THE POSSIBLE TORNADO HAS MOVED OUT OF THE COUNTY.
LAT...LON 4802 9376 4794 9401 4787 9403 4790 9384
4791 9363
$$
DCThe office that day
Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 12:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Koochiching | 49 min |
| Jun 23, 1:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Koochiching | 34 min |
| Jun 23, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Koochiching | 26 min |
| Jun 23, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Koochiching | 55 min |
| Jun 23, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Koochiching | 31 min |
| Jun 23, 6:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Itasca | 44 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.