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Special Weather Statement, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this special weather statement at Jun 6, 2012, 3:01 PM CDT for Cook County, Minnesota. It was in force for 29 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
- Jun 6, 2012, 3:01 PM CDT (20:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2012, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
County Cook County, MN
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 118 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -149 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1013 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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NWS Duluth, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jun 6, 12:36 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 12:36 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 6, 2:23 PM CDT, 38 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 256 PM CDT WED JUN 6 2012 WIZ001-006-007-062030- BURNETT-DOUGLAS-WASHBURN- 256 PM CDT WED JUN 6 2012 AT 255 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES EAST OF MOOSE JUNCTION...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...BRIEF MODERATE DOWNPOURS... LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... SAINT CROIX FLOWAGE... GORDON... MINONG FLOWAGE... WASCOTT... MINONG... 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 4611 9160 4594 9200 4629 9225 4640 9195 STEWART
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 2:57 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 257 PM CDT WED JUN 6 2012 MNZ010-018-062030- KOOCHICHING-NORTH ITASCA- 257 PM CDT WED JUN 6 2012 AT 257 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR ALVWOOD...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HALF INCH DIAMETER HAIL...WIND GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...BRIEF MODERATE DOWNPOURS... LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ROSY... WIRT... DIXON LAKE... SAND LAKE... SQUAW LAKE... OSLUND... MAX... 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 4764 9375 4743 9432 4780 9439 4786 9414 STEWART
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 2:58 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 258 PM CDT WED JUN 6 2012 MNZ038-WIZ006-062030- BURNETT-PINE- 258 PM CDT WED JUN 6 2012 AT 258 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF DUXBURY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...BRIEF MODERATE DOWNPOURS... LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... DUXBURY... MARKVILLE... DANBURY... 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 4599 9217 4582 9262 4622 9275 4629 9251 STEWART
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 3:01 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
301 PM CDT WED JUN 6 2012
MNZ012-020-021-062030-
NORTHERN COOK/NORTHERN LAKE-SOUTHERN COOK/NORTH SHORE-SOUTHERN
LAKE/NORTH SHORE-
301 PM CDT WED JUN 6 2012
AT 258 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF WHITE PINE LAKE...NEARLY
STATIONARY MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WEST CENTRAL COOK COUNTY...
EAST CENTRAL COUNTY...
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 4779 9058 4756 9100 4786 9116 4796 9092
STEWARTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 6, 8:55 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | 35 min | |
| Jun 6, 10:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | 45 min | |
| Jun 6, 11:14 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Saint Louis | 46 min |
| Jun 6, 11:52 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Saint Louis | 23 min |
| Jun 6, 12:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Saint Louis | 23 min |
| Jun 6, 1:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Itasca | 37 min |
| Jun 6, 1:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Itasca | 23 min |
| Jun 6, 2:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Pine | 37 min |
| Jun 6, 2:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Itasca | 33 min |
| Jun 6, 2:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Itasca | 33 min |
| Jun 6, 3:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Pine | 59 min |
| Jun 6, 3:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Itasca | 41 min |
| Jun 6, 4:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cass, Itasca | 41 min |
| Jun 6, 4:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Cass | 43 min |
| Jun 6, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cass | 36 min |
| Jun 6, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cass | 46 min |
| Jun 6, 5:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Koochiching | 50 min |
| Jun 6, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cass, Crow Wing | 53 min |
| Jun 6, 12:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Iron | 27 min |
| Jun 6, 1:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Sawyer | 50 min |
| Jun 6, 1:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Sawyer | 28 min |
| Jun 6, 2:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Douglas | 29 min |
| Jun 6, 2:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Washburn | 34 min |
| Jun 6, 2:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Burnett | 32 min |
| Jun 6, 3:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Bayfield | 18 min |
| Jun 6, 4:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Ashland | 52 min |
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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.