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Special Weather Statement, NWS Duluth, MN

August 19, 2011Cook County, Minnesota

NWS Duluth, MN issued this special weather statement at Aug 19, 2011, 2:08 AM CDT for Cook County, Minnesota. It was in force for 22 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
Aug 19, 2011, 2:08 AM CDT (07:08 UTC)
Expired
Aug 19, 2011, 2:30 AM CDT
In force
22 min
Issued by
NWS Duluth, MN

County Cook County, MN

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 190 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, International Fa, MN at 00:00Z on 2011-08-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 814 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, International Fa, MN at 00:00Z on 2011-08-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 100 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
814 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1678 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
196 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
6.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

340 
WWUS83 KDLH 190708
SPSDLH

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
208 AM CDT FRI AUG 19 2011

MNZ012-021-190730-
NORTHERN COOK/NORTHERN LAKE-SOUTHERN COOK/NORTH SHORE-
208 AM CDT FRI AUG 19 2011

...STRONG STORM OVER THE BOUNDARY WATERS...

AT 204 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES EAST OF ALICE LAKE...MOVING EAST AT 25
MPH.

THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HALF INCH DIAMETER HAIL...WIND
GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH...OCCASIONAL CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...BRIEF
HEAVY DOWNPOURS...

* THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL COOK COUNTY AT 220 AM


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 4808 9068 4773 9070 4779 9122 4808 9124

$$

HLUCHAN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 19, 1:21 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLHCass, Crow Wing, Itasca24 min
Aug 19, 1:33 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLHCook12 min
Aug 19, 1:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHCass, Itasca57 min
Aug 19, 2:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHAitkin, Cass, Itasca42 min
Aug 19, 3:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHAitkin, Carlton, Cass, Itasca, Saint Louis61 min
Aug 19, 3:52 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLHCarlton23 min
Aug 19, 3:56 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningDLH94 min
Aug 19, 4:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHAitkin, Carlton, Lake, Pine, Saint Louis51 min
Aug 19, 4:37 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLH23 min
Aug 19, 4:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHKoochiching, Saint Louis42 min
Aug 19, 4:57 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLHLake33 min
Aug 19, 5:46 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLHCook29 min
Aug 19, 6:09 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningDLH39 min
Aug 19, 4:59 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLHDouglas31 min
Aug 19, 5:33 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLHAshland, Bayfield, Douglas27 min
Aug 19, 5:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHBurnett, Douglas, Washburn39 min
Aug 19, 6:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHSawyer, Washburn32 min
Aug 19, 6:59 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLHIron, Price, Sawyer31 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.