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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2008, 1:35 PM CDT for Aitkin County, Cass County, Crow Wing County, Minnesota. It was in force for 55 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 27, 2008, 1:35 PM CDT (18:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2008, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Aitkin County, MN, Cass County, MN, Crow Wing County, MN
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:35 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 27, 1:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 374 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 791 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 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 27, 3:52 AM CDT, 9 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 3:52 AM CDT, 9 hours 43 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 4:41 AM CDT, 8 hours 54 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 441 AM CDT FRI JUN 27 2008 MNZ010>012-018>021-025-026-033>038-WIZ001>004-006>009-281030- 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- 441 AM CDT FRI JUN 27 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM FROM ROSY...IN NORTHERN ITASCA COUNTY...TO HIBBING...TO TWO HARBORS...TO HURLEY WISCONSIN. THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE LOCALLY DAMAGING WINDS AND POSSIBLY HAIL. IN ADDITION...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE ACROSS MOST OF THE NORTHLAND THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING AS AN UNUSUALLY STRONG WEATHER SYSTEM ARRIVES FROM CANADA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY A CHANGEABLE DAY IS EXPECTED ACROSS THE NORTHLAND AS A STRONG UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM CROSSES MINNESOTA. AFTER MORNING SUNSHINE...CLOUDS WILL INCREASE AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS...ESPECIALLY OVER NORTHWEST WISCONSIN DURING THE AFTERNOON. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT. PLEASE REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN DULUTH. LSZ121-140>148-281030- 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- 441 AM CDT FRI JUN 27 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE NEARSHORE WATERS OF WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM FROM TWO HARBORS MINNESOTA ACROSS LAKE SUPERIOR TO CORNUCOPIA WISCONSIN. THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE LOCALLY GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL OVER WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR SATURDAY. CANNON
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 27, 12:49 PM CDT, 46 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 27, 12:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Saint Louis | 54 min |
| Jun 27, 12:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cass, Crow Wing | 41 min |
| Jun 27, 1:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Lake, Saint Louis | 26 min |
| Jun 27, 1:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Saint Louis | 59 min |
| Jun 27, 1:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Lake | 17 min |
| Jun 27, 1:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Saint Louis | 64 min |
| Jun 27, 2:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cass, Crow Wing | 57 min |
| Jun 27, 2:39 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | DLH | Saint Louis | 6 hr |
| Jun 27, 2:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Aitkin | 34 min |
| Jun 27, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Crow Wing | 25 min |
| Jun 27, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cass | 49 min |
| Jun 27, 4:05 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Crow Wing, Lake, Saint Louis | 4 hr |
| Jun 27, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Koochiching | 54 min |
| Jun 27, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Cass, Crow Wing | 62 min |
| Jun 27, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Koochiching | 31 min |
| Jun 27, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Saint Louis | 12 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.