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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Duluth, MN

July 6, 2014Aitkin County, Minnesota

NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2014, 12:12 AM CDT for Aitkin County, Minnesota. It was in force for 48 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: Jul 6, 2014, 12:12 AM CDT (05:12 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 2014, 1:00 AM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Duluth, MN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

County Aitkin County, MN

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 196 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: 94 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -324 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1426 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 154 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 269 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jul 5, 9:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 9:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 5, 9:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 5, 10:32 PM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 5, 11:15 PM CDT, 57 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 5, 11:29 PM CDT, 43 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 5, 11:30 PM CDT, 42 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 5, 11:50 PM CDT, 22 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 6, 12:09 AM CDT, 3 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 5, 7:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DLH	Cook	6 hr
Jul 5, 7:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Cook	44 min
Jul 5, 7:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Beltrami	41 min
Jul 5, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Itasca, Koochiching	55 min
Jul 5, 8:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Cook	29 min
Jul 5, 8:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Cook	27 min
Jul 5, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Cass, Itasca	63 min
Jul 5, 9:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Cass	40 min
Jul 5, 9:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Itasca	51 min
Jul 5, 10:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Cass, Itasca	36 min
Jul 5, 10:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Itasca	58 min
Jul 5, 11:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Itasca	60 min
Jul 5, 11:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Aitkin, Itasca	44 min
Jul 6, 12:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Aitkin	36 min
Jul 6, 12:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Cook	63 min
Jul 6, 12:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Cass	35 min
Jul 6, 12:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Carlton	23 min
Jul 6, 1:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Cass	55 min
Jul 6, 1:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Wadena	54 min
Jul 6, 1:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Cook	43 min
Jul 6, 2:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Lake	35 min
Jul 6, 2:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Cook	31 min
Jul 6, 2:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH		26 min
Jul 6, 3:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH		26 min
Jul 6, 3:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Carlton	19 min
Jul 6, 4:24 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Lake	21 min
Jul 6, 4:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Koochiching	33 min
Jul 6, 5:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Cass	36 min
Jul 6, 6:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Cass, Crow Wing	40 min
Jul 6, 7:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Aitkin	42 min
Jul 6, 8:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Aitkin	14 min
Jul 6, 8:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Aitkin	37 min
Jul 6, 10:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Saint Louis	29 min
Jul 6, 11:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH		13 min
Jul 6, 11:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH		30 min
Jul 6, 12:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH		15 min
Jul 6, 12:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Lake	15 min
Jul 6, 1:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Itasca	36 min
Jul 6, 1:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH		34 min
Jul 6, 1:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH		21 min
Jul 6, 1:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH		35 min
Jul 6, 1:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Itasca	29 min
Jul 6, 1:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Saint Louis	25 min
Jul 6, 2:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Cook	31 min
Jul 6, 2:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH		12 min
Jul 6, 2:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Itasca	35 min
Jul 6, 2:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Saint Louis	33 min
Jul 6, 2:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH		27 min
Jul 6, 2:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Cook	14 min
Jul 6, 2:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Lake	33 min
Jul 6, 3:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Cook	24 min
Jul 6, 3:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Saint Louis	35 min
Jul 6, 4:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Lake	14 min
Jul 6, 6:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Cook	40 min
Jul 6, 3:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Douglas	36 min
Jul 6, 5:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Iron, Price	33 min
Jul 6, 6:37 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Price	23 min
Jul 6, 4:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Iron	26 min
Jul 6, 4:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Ashland, Iron, Sawyer, Washburn	27 min
Jul 6, 5:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Iron	25 min
Jul 6, 5:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Douglas	23 min
Jul 6, 5:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Price	32 min
Jul 6, 6:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Sawyer	27 min
Jul 6, 6:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Price	34 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.