Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 2008, 10:22 PM CDT for Itasca County, Saint Louis County, Minnesota. It was in force for 38 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 1, 2008, 10:22 PM CDT (03:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2008, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Itasca County, MN, Saint Louis County, MN
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:24 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Jul 1, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 398 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1897 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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 1, 9:09 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 1, 9:09 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 1, 10:14 AM CDT, 12 hours 8 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 1014 AM CDT TUE JUL 1 2008 MNZ010>012-018>021-025-026-033>038-WIZ001>004-006>009-021030- 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- 1014 AM CDT TUE JUL 1 2008 ...RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE NORTHLAND FROM LATE AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTHWARD OUT OF CANADA LATER TODAY AND THROUGH THE REGION TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS FAR NORTHERN MINNESOTA DURING THE AFTERNOON...WITH THUNDERSTORMS SPREADING ACROSS THE REST OF THE AREA THIS EVENING. WITH TEMPERATURES REACHING INTO THE MIDDLE TO UPPER 80S TODAY...AND MOISTURE INCREASING THROUGHOUT THE DAY...THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA. THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ACROSS NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA AND FAR NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT WITH ANY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS PARTS OF THE NORTHLAND ON WEDNESDAY...AND AGAIN FROM SATURDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT... ESPECIALLY FROM LATE AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING. LSZ121-140>148-021030- 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- 1014 AM CDT TUE JUL 1 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE NEARSHORE WATERS OF WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTHWARD OUT OF CANADA LATER TODAY AND THROUGH THE REGION TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS FAR NORTHERN MINNESOTA DURING THE AFTERNOON...WITH THUNDERSTORMS SPREADING ACROSS THE REST OF THE AREA THIS EVENING. WITH TEMPERATURES REACHING INTO THE MIDDLE TO UPPER 80S TODAY...AND MOISTURE INCREASING THROUGHOUT THE DAY...THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA. THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ACROSS NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA AND FAR NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT WITH ANY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS PARTS OF THE NORTHLAND ON WEDNESDAY...AND AGAIN FROM SATURDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY. MELDE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Koochiching | 45 min |
| Jul 1, 9:31 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | DLH | 89 min | |
| Jul 1, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cook, Lake | 52 min |
| Jul 1, 10:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Itasca | 43 min |
| Jul 1, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cass | 60 min |
| Jul 1, 10:33 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | DLH | 57 min | |
| Jul 1, 10:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Lake, Saint Louis | 56 min |
| Jul 1, 10:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Saint Louis | 35 min |
| Jul 1, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Itasca, Saint Louis | 42 min |
| Jul 1, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Lake, Saint Louis | 34 min |
| Jul 1, 11:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Cass | 39 min |
| Jul 1, 11:49 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | DLH | 56 min | |
| Jul 2, 12:37 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | DLH | 23 min | |
| Jul 2, 12:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cass, Crow Wing | 60 min |
| Jul 2, 1:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Crow Wing | 49 min |
| Jul 2, 2:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Pine | 26 min |
| Jul 2, 12:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Ashland, Bayfield | 44 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008
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.