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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 2013, 7:42 PM CDT for Pine County, Minnesota; Burnett County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 33 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 6, 2013, 7:42 PM CDT (00:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2013, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Pine County, MN, Burnett County, WI
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:45 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 6, 2:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Aug 6, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 576 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1678 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
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 Aug 6, 3:33 PM CDT, 4 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 3:33 PM CDT, 4 hours 9 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 333 PM CDT TUE AUG 6 2013 .SHORT TERM... INTERESTING AFTERNOON AND EVENING DEVELOPING ACROSS MINNESOTA. WEAK SURFACE LOW IS CURRENTLY OVER FAR SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA...WITH A WARM FRONT DRAPED FROM IT SOUTHEAST ACROSS CENTRAL MINNESOTA TO JUST NORTH OF THE TWIN CITIES. MOST OF THE DULUTH CWA IS SITTING ON THE COOL SIDE OF THIS BOUNDARY...WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE 60S TO LOW 70S...AND DEWPOINTS IN THE 50S. CAPES SOUTH OF THE BOUNDARY HAVE RISEN INTO THE 1500-2000J/KG RANGE...WITH BULK SHEAR VALUES OVER 45KTS. WITH THE FRONT SO CLOSE TO THE FORECAST AREA...AM CONCERNED WITH ANY STORMS BEING ABLE TO TAP THAT VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS THIS EVENING AND PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER WELL INTO THE SOUTHERN TIER OF COUNTIES THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. NORTH OF THERE...MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AS THE WAVE AND AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT CURRENTLY GENERATING STORMS OVER NORTH DAKOTA SWEEPS SOUTHEAST TO AFFECT THE FORECAST AREA. SO...HAVE KEPT THE VERY HIGH POPS GOING THIS EVENING...THEN DIMINISHING LATE AS THE WHOLE SYSTEM SWEEPS EAST. THE COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA OVERNIGHT...BRINGING COOLER AND DRIER AIR INTO THE AREA. MIN TEMPS TONIGHT SHOULD FALL INTO THE MID 40S NW TO MID 50S SE. WEDNESDAY TO BE COOL AND QUIET WITH A SURFACE RIDGE BUILDING INTO THE AREA. DEEP MIXING WILL HELP BOOST TEMPERATURES MID 60S TO LOW 70S. .LONG TERM...WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY... PRIMARY SYNOPTIC SCALE FEATURE THIS PERIOD IS THE LARGE MID LVL LOW OVER MB/ONT BORDER AT BEGINNING OF PERIOD. THIS SYSTEM WILL DROP ESE INTO SRN ONTARIO FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK BEFORE EJECTING EAST INTO QUEBEC FOR THE WEEKEND. OVERALL MID LVL FLOW IS NORTHWEST WITH AN INITIAL COLD FROPA EXPECTED THURSDAY. WILL CARRY POPS LATE WED EVE OVER NWRN MN ZONES...SPREADING ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE CWA THURSDAY. SOME OF THE NWP SUGGESTS A SECONDARY AXIS OF 85/70H MSTR TRANSPORT WILL SLIDE SOUTH INTO NRN MN CWA FRIDAY. HAVE USED SLGT CHC WORDING AND KEPT PRECIP TYPE RW VS TRW DUE TO LIMITED CONVECTIVE INSTABILITY. A MAINLY DRY WEEKEND IS EXPECTED AS A LARGE SFC HIGH MOVES TOWARDS NRN PLAINS. COMPLICATING FACTOR IS PRESENCE OF CYCLONIC FLOW ALOFT ON WRN EDGE OF ONTARIO/QUEBEC MID LVL CIRCULATION. ANY MIGRATORY SHORTWAVE MAY HAVE JUST ENOUGH INTENSITY TO SPREAD A FEW RW ACROSS THE RN HALF OF THE CWA. SLGT CHC POP USED TO COVER THIS FOR NOW UNTIL SUCH POINT WHEN MORE DEFINITION MAY BE USED. && .AVIATION...18Z TAF ISSUANCE... SFC LOW AND FRONTAL SYSTEM WILL CROSS CWA LATE TODAY AND TONIGHT. WIDESPREAD PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS AT TIMES. ALTHOUGH UNCERTAINTY EXISTS REGARDING HOW UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE WILL BECOME DUE TO PRECEDING CLOUD COVER...THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR MORE SIGNIFICANT STORMS OVER BRD/DLH/HYR TERMINALS BETWEEN 4PM TO 9PM LOCAL TIME. MAY REQUIRE AMENDMENTS ONCE A MORE ORGANIZED CONVECTIVE PATTERN DEVELOPS. A PERIOD OF LOWER STRATUS AND SOME BR IS EXPECTED BEHIND CONVECTION OVERNIGHT ALTHOUGH INCREASING SFC WINDS SHOULD LIMIT WIDESPREAD DEVELOPMENT. && .POINT TEMPS/POPS... DLH 55 69 49 69 / 80 10 10 40 INL 47 66 45 66 / 60 10 20 40 BRD 55 72 49 72 / 90 0 10 40 HYR 56 72 47 72 / 80 10 0 20 ASX 56 69 47 70 / 80 10 0 20 && .DLH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MN...NONE. WI...NONE. LS...NONE. && SHORT TERM...LE LONG TERM....CANNON AVIATION...CANNON
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 6, 3:20 PM CDT, 4 hours 22 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 320 PM CDT TUE AUG 6 2013 MNZ010>012-018>021-025-026-033>038-WIZ001>004-006>009-071130- 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- 320 PM CDT TUE AUG 6 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE NORTHLAND THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING AS A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM AND COLD FRONT MOVE THROUGH THE REGION. SOME STORMS ACROSS NORTHEAST MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST WISCONSIN COULD BE STRONG TO SEVERE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE MOST LIKELY POTENTIAL OF ANY SEVERE STORMS IS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM NIMROD TO MOOSE LAKE TO PARK FALLS. THIS INCLUDES THE BRAINERD...HINCKLEY...AND HAYWARD AREAS. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...AND A POSSIBLE TORNADO ARE THE MAIN THREATS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. LSZ121-140>148-071130- 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- 320 PM CDT TUE AUG 6 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE NEARSHORE WATERS OF WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING. SOME STORMS MAY BE STRONG. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. CANNON MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING WEB ADDRESS: HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/DULUTH (ALL LOWER CASE)
In the hours before
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Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 7:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Pine | 26 min |
| Aug 6, 8:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Price, Sawyer | 30 min |
| Aug 6, 8:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Burnett | 25 min |
| Aug 6, 10:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Price | 17 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2013Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 2013Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2013
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.