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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this tornado warning at Aug 7, 2010, 10:30 PM CDT for Sawyer County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 30 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 7, 2010, 10:30 PM CDT (03:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2010, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Sawyer County, WI
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:31 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 2210 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1185 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 246 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.8
- Supercell composite
- 12.7
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Aug 7, 7:37 PM CDT, 2 hours 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 7:37 PM CDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 737 PM CDT SAT AUG 7 2010 .UPDATE... INCREASED CHANCES OF RAIN AND THUNDER NORTH OF DULUTH. INTRODUCED AREAS OF FOG LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY SUNDAY. && .DISCUSSION... WARM FRONT SEEMS TO BE ADVECTING UNSTABLE AIR AND CONVECTIVE AVAILABLE POTENTIAL ENERGY FURTHER NORTHEAST...UP THE SLOPE OF THE APPROACHING WARM FRONT...THAN GUIDANCE SUGGESTS. THUNDERSTORMS AHEAD OF THE WARM FRONT HAVE BEEN ELEVATED...THE WARM FRONTAL SURFACE IS UP OFF THE SURFACE...AND POTENT BUT NO REPORTS OF HAIL REACHING THE GROUND OR WIND GUSTS OVERCOMING THE ENERGY IT TAKES TO PUSH DOWN INTO DENSE SURFACE AIR YET. MOST ACTIVE STORMS ARE WEAKENING AND PASSING OUT OF OUR AREA. REALLY DANGEROUS STORMS WITH BOTH A HISTORY OF TORNADOES AND ASSOCIATED WITH DEEP VERY UNSTABLE AIR CONTINUE TO APPROACH SOUTHWEST PORTIONS OF OUR AREA...THE PORTIONS NOW UNDER A TORNADO WATCH. WITH HIGHER MOISTURE CONTENT IN THE INCOMING TROPICAL AIR...WE ANTICIPATE FOG DEVELOPMENT LATE TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY AROUND LAKE SUPERIOR WHERE SHALLOW MARINE AIR CONTINUES TO MANIFEST ITSELF WITH A RELATIVELY COOL BUT WEAK ONSHORE FLOW. .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 704 PM CDT SAT AUG 7 2010/ AVIATION...08/08/00Z ISSUANCE... AN AIR MASS CHANGE IS BRINGING VERY HUMID AIR INTO THE AREA. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW SEVERE OR EVEN TORNADIC...WILL SPREAD INTO THE AREA AS FAR NORTH AND EAST AS A GPZ/DLH/HYR LINE. RELUCTANT MARINE AIR NORTH OF THE STRONG WARM FRONT WILL CAUSE VFR CONDITIONS TO DETERIORATE TO VLIFR IN AREAS OF FOG AROUND THE LAKE AND PATCHY FOG INLAND LATE TONIGHT...ANY FOG WILL LIFT BY MIDMORNING SUNDAY. CONDITIONS WILL REMAIN VFR AFTER MIDMORNING SUNDAY. PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 321 PM CDT SAT AUG 7 2010/ DISCUSSION...SFC WARM FRONT DRAPED OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE FA AT 19Z FROM KXVG TO KCOQ TO THE SOUTHERN PERIPHERY OF LAKE SUPERIOR IN NW WI. CHAOTIC CLOUD MASS HAS BEEN IMPACTING THE FA ALL DAY AND HAS KEPT MAX TEMPS...AS WELL AS INSTABILITY...IN CHECK. BEST INSTABILITY IS S OF THE WARM FRONT IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MN ATTM. SHORT WAVE MOVING THROUGH THE DAKOTAS WILL BE THE FORCING MECHANISM NEED TO LAUNCH THUNDERSTORMS. EXPECT THE STORMS TO MAINLY AFFECT THE AFOREMENTIONED AREAS INTO SOUTHERN TIER OF FA THIS EVENING...S OF U.S. HIGHWAY 2. THIS SHORT WAVE WILL CROSS THE FA TONIGHT WITH ACCOMPANYING THUNDERSTORMS COMPLEX. PWATS AROUND 1.75 INCHES INDICATE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAIN...BUT STORMS SHOULD MOVE AT A GOOD CLIP KEEPING ACCUMULATIONS IN THE 1 TO 1.25 INCH RANGE. SOME ACTIVITY MAY LINGER IN NW WI SUNDAY MORNING. A BRAKE IN THE ACTION SUNDAY AFTERNOON EXCEPT IN THE NW CORNER OF THE FA AS FAST MOVING WEAK SHORT WAVE IN SOUTHERN CANADA MAY HAVE A FEW STORMS CLIP THIS AREA. HAVE SMALL POPS IN PLACE. FAIRLY QUIET THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT WITH RIDGING OVER THE FA. DID PLACE A SMALL POP OVER THE ARROWHEAD AS MODELS SUGGEST ANOTHER WEAK WAVE AFFECTING THAT AREA LATE SUNDAY NIGHT. ADDED PATCHY FOG LATE SUNDAY NIGHT AS FORECAST SOUNDINGS MOISTEN UP IN THE LOWEST 1K FT. THE RIDGING PREVAILS THROUGH MONDAY. NEXT WAVE EJECTS OUT OF THE WEST COAST TROF FOR ANOTHER ROUND OF STORMS ON TUESDAY. EXTENDED...TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THE FOLLOWING WEEKEND... THE WAVY AND STRONG ZONAL FLOW CONTINUES AS A SERIES OF ARCTIC OUTBREAKS CONTINUE FROM GREAT SLAVE LAKE THROUGH MOST OF HUDSON BAY. MEANWHILE...THE FEROCIOUS HEAT SPELL AND ITS ASSOCIATED UPPER HIGH CONTINUES FROM THE COLORADO PLATEAU EASTWARD THROUGH THE MID ATLANTIC STATES...ALL THIS CONTRAST MAINTAINING THE ZONAL FLOW. DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN MODELS ALSO MAINTAIN A LARGE TROUGH ALOFT OVER BRITISH COLUMBIA AND THE AMERICAN NORTHWEST...WITH SHOTS OF COLD AIR AND OUT-OF-PHASE TROUGHS BEING BROUGHT OVER OUR AREA. IN GENERAL WE CAN EXPECT UNSEASONABLY WARM AND REMARKABLY HUMID WEATHER WITH SCATTERED MOSTLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS FOR OUR AREA. HOWEVER...HIGH POTENTIALS SUGGEST THAT THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE QUITE POTENT...WITH ALL THE DYNAMICS AND VARIABLE TEMPERATURES ALOFT. SO...ONE SUCH TROUGH AND COLD POCKET MOVES OVER US AS SURFACE LOW PRESSURE OVER THE DAKOTAS ADVECTS HOT AND HUMID TROPICAL AIR FROM THE GULF STRAIGHT INTO OUR AREA TUESDAY NIGHT...THE SURFACE LOW PASSES US...WITH A WARM MOIST HANG-BACK TROUGH OVER OUR AREA WEDNESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY EVENING. ANOTHER STRONG...FAST MOVING TROUGH ALOFT ACCOMPANIES INCREASINGLY POTENT LOW LEVEL TROPICAL AIR ADVECTION THURSDAY EVENING AND FRIDAY. A COLD FRONT...FOLLOWED BY UPPER AND MID LEVEL COLD ADVECTION...PUSHES THROUGH LATE SATURDAY AFTERNOON OR SATURDAY EVENING ON ALL THE MODELS. THE MODELS SUGGEST A GRADUAL COOL DOWN AND DRYING TOWARD MORE SEASONABLE LEVELS SUNDAY. AVIATION...18Z TAF ISSUANCE. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED MAINLY SOUTH AND ALONG A LINE FROM KBJI THROUGH KHIB TO KBFW THROUGH 08Z. AFTER 08Z THERE WILL BE AREAS OF FOG WITH VSBY AOB 3SM. && .POINT TEMPS/POPS... DLH 63 79 61 86 / 80 10 10 10 INL 58 84 58 89 / 30 20 10 10 BRD 65 89 67 92 / 80 10 10 10 HYR 65 88 62 93 / 80 20 10 10 ASX 63 82 60 89 / 80 20 10 10 && .DLH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MN...NONE. WI...NONE. LS...NONE. && SHORT TERM...EOM
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 7, 9:57 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 7, 8:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 817 PM CDT SAT AUG 7 2010 WIZ002-080200- BAYFIELD- 817 PM CDT SAT AUG 7 2010 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH BAYFIELD COUNTY... AT 813 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR IRON RIVER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HALF INCH DIAMETER HAIL...WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH...OCCASIONAL CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS... * THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... INO BY 830 PM... MASON AND BENOIT BY 840 PM... GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL OBJECTS SUCH AS TRASH BINS TO BLOW AROUND. STAY AWAY FROM HIGH OBJECTS OUTDOORS SUCH AS TREES. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED. LAT...LON 4652 9093 4632 9104 4647 9152 4664 9143 KK
Special weather statement, Aug 7, 8:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 850 PM CDT SAT AUG 7 2010 WIZ001-002-007-008-080245- BAYFIELD-DOUGLAS-SAWYER-WASHBURN- 850 PM CDT SAT AUG 7 2010 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN BAYFIELD COUNTY... AT 845 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM CABLE TO 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WASCOTT...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HALF INCH DIAMETER HAIL...WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH...OCCASIONAL CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS... LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... TOTAGATIC FLOWAGE... CABLE... NELSON LAKE... STANBERRY... SPRINGBROOK... SPRINGBROOK... HAYWARD... LOST LAND LAKE... TEAL LAKE... LITTLE ROUND LAKE... NORTHWOODS BEACH... CHIPPEWA LAKE... STONE LAKE... CHIEF LAKE... RESERVE... GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL OBJECTS SUCH AS TRASH BINS TO BLOW AROUND. STAY AWAY FROM HIGH OBJECTS OUTDOORS SUCH AS TREES. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THESE STORMS HAVE PASSED. LAT...LON 4587 9085 4569 9144 4616 9190 4633 9130 KK
Special weather statement, Aug 7, 8:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
859 PM CDT SAT AUG 7 2010
MNZ033>036-038-WIZ001-006-007-080300-
BURNETT-CROW WING-DOUGLAS-NORTHERN AITKIN-PINE-SOUTH AITKIN-SOUTH
CASS-WASHBURN-
859 PM CDT SAT AUG 7 2010
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM THE BRAINERD LAKES...EASTWARD TO THE ST
CROIX RIVER VALLEY...
AT 854 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
LEADER TO CAMP LAKE TO WEBSTER...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING UP TO PENNY SIZE HAIL...WIND
GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...BRIEF HEAVY
DOWNPOURS...
LOCATIONS IMPACTED THROUGH 10 PM INCLUDE...
NORTH LONG LAKE... WOODROW... LAKE SHORE...
MILLE LACS LAKE... NISSWA... LEGIONVILLE...
GARRISON... CLOVERDALE... YELLOWLAKE...
MERRIFIELD... LAKE HUBERT... FRIESLAND...
EDWARD LAKE... BAY LAKE... RIVERTON...
GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL OBJECTS SUCH AS TRASH BINS TO BLOW
AROUND. STAY AWAY FROM HIGH OBJECTS OUTDOORS SUCH AS TREES. SEEK
SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THESE STORMS HAVE PASSED.
LAT...LON 4652 9478 4670 9375 4636 9288 4603 9154
4593 9154 4581 9233 4600 9307 4615 9306
4615 9343 4624 9345 4623 9379 4618 9382
LONKASpecial weather statement, Aug 7, 9:49 PM CDT, 41 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
949 PM CDT SAT AUG 7 2010
MNZ035-080330-
NORTHERN AITKIN-
949 PM CDT SAT AUG 7 2010
...STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACROSS NORTHERN AITKIN COUNTY...
AT 945 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTH OF SWATARA...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING UP TO PENNY SIZE HAIL...WIND GUSTS
UP TO 50 MPH...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...HEAVY
DOWNPOURS...
LOCATIONS IMPACTED THROUGH 1030 PM INCLUDE...
LIBBY... JACOBSON... BALL BLUFF...
GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL BRANCHES TO BE BLOWN DOWN...AND LOOSE
OBJECTS TO BLOW AROUND. STAY AWAY FROM HIGH OBJECTS OUTDOORS SUCH AS
TREES. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THIS STORM HAS
PASSED.
LAT...LON 4702 9313 4702 9307 4704 9306 4705 9301
4702 9300 4702 9306 4679 9306 4673 9373
4691 9378
LONKASpecial weather statement, Aug 7, 9:58 PM CDT, 32 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 7:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Crow Wing | 92 min |
| Aug 7, 8:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Crow Wing | 56 min |
| Aug 7, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cass, Crow Wing | 48 min |
| Aug 7, 8:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Crow Wing, Pine | 61 min |
| Aug 7, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cass, Crow Wing | 39 min |
| Aug 7, 9:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cass | 38 min |
| Aug 7, 9:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Aitkin | 41 min |
| Aug 7, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Pine | 51 min |
| Aug 7, 10:56 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | DLH | Carlton, Saint Louis | 3 hr |
| Aug 7, 11:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Carlton | 16 min |
| Aug 7, 11:18 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | DLH | 87 min | |
| Aug 8, 5:26 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Itasca, Saint Louis | 4 hr |
| Aug 8, 6:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Koochiching | 44 min |
| Aug 7, 8:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Bayfield | 43 min |
| Aug 7, 8:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Sawyer | 55 min |
| Aug 7, 9:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Sawyer | 35 min |
| Aug 7, 9:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Sawyer | 48 min |
| Aug 7, 9:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Douglas | 32 min |
| Aug 7, 10:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Bayfield, Douglas | 26 min |
| Aug 7, 10:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Bayfield | 50 min |
| Aug 7, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Ashland, Price, Sawyer | 40 min |
| Aug 7, 11:06 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | DLH | Price, Sawyer | 6 hr |
| Aug 7, 11:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Washburn | 37 min |
| Aug 8, 12:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Sawyer, Washburn | 42 min |
| Aug 8, 12:13 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Price | 77 min |
| Aug 8, 12:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DLH | Price, Sawyer | 3 hr |
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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.