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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2008, 10:29 PM CDT for 4 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 46 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
- Jun 14, 2008, 10:29 PM CDT (03:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2008, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Aitkin County, MN, Cass County, MN, Crow Wing County, MN, Itasca County, MN
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:29 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1696 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 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 Jun 14, 10:04 PM CDT, 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 10:04 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 14, 3:54 PM CDT, 6 hours 35 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 354 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 2008 MNZ010>012-018>021-025-026-033>038-WIZ001>004-006>009-151030- 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- 354 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT TONIGHT SCATTERED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO ORGANIZE THIS EVENING OVER THE DAKOTAS AND NORTHWEST AND WESTERN MINNESOTA...AND ARE EXPECTED TO ORGANIZE INTO A COMPLEX OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT WILL MOVE EASTWARD ACROSS MINNESOTA AND NORTHERN WISCONSIN TONIGHT. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY REACH SEVERE LEVELS... WITH A PRIMARY THREAT OF PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL POSSIBLE ON SUNDAY...AND AGAIN MONDAY NIGHT... AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER THIS EVENING OR OVERNIGHT. LSZ121-140>148-151030- 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- 354 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE NEARSHORE WATERS OF WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR. .DAY ONE...THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVERNIGHT... AND MAY PRODUCE LIGHTNING...LOCALLY GUSTY WINDS AND HIGHER WAVES AND SMALL HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL POSSIBLE ON SUNDAY...AND AGAIN MONDAY NIGHT... AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 14, 9:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cass, Itasca | 43 min |
| Jun 14, 7:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Itasca, Koochiching | 36 min |
| Jun 14, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Koochiching, Saint Louis | 38 min |
| Jun 14, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Itasca, Koochiching | 40 min |
| Jun 14, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Saint Louis | 29 min |
| Jun 14, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Cass, Itasca | 24 min |
| Jun 14, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Pine | 38 min |
| Jun 14, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cass, Crow Wing, Itasca | 63 min |
| Jun 14, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cass, Itasca, Koochiching | 50 min |
| Jun 15, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Sawyer, Washburn | 37 min |
| Jun 15, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Price, Sawyer | 23 min |
| Jun 15, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Ashland, Price, Sawyer | 40 min |
| Jun 15, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Sawyer | 42 min |
| Jun 15, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Ashland, Price | 22 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.