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Special Weather Statement, NWS Duluth, MN

June 16, 2012Carlton County, Pine County, Saint Louis County, Minnesota

NWS Duluth, MN issued this special weather statement at Jun 16, 2012, 3:02 PM CDT for Carlton County, Pine County, Saint Louis County, Minnesota. It was in force for 43 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 16, 2012, 3:02 PM CDT (20:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2012, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Duluth, MN

Counties Carlton County, MN, Pine County, MN, Saint Louis County, MN

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 247 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 195 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -95 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1247 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 12:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Cass, Koochiching	14 min
Jun 16, 12:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Cass, Koochiching	45 min
Jun 16, 1:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Aitkin	30 min
Jun 16, 1:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Cass, Koochiching	32 min
Jun 16, 1:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Kanabec	25 min
Jun 16, 2:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Itasca	27 min
Jun 16, 2:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Saint Louis	37 min
Jun 16, 3:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Pine	46 min
Jun 16, 3:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Carlton, Saint Louis	43 min
Jun 16, 4:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Lake	61 min
Jun 16, 5:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Lake	54 min
Jun 16, 11:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Ashland, Bayfield	21 min
Jun 16, 4:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Burnett, Douglas, Washburn	66 min
Jun 16, 6:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Douglas	59 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Minnesota, 2012 Every special weather statement in 2012

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.