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Special Weather Statement, NWS Duluth, MN

August 8, 2015Saint Louis County, Minnesota

NWS Duluth, MN issued this special weather statement at Aug 8, 2015, 1:08 AM CDT for Saint Louis County, Minnesota. It was in force for 37 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 8, 2015, 1:08 AM CDT (06:08 UTC)
Expired: Aug 8, 2015, 1:45 AM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Duluth, MN

County Saint Louis County, MN

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:09 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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 78 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: 1843 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 834 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 149 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 144 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 7.9

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The text

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

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Aug 8, 1:06 AM CDT, 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 1:06 AM CDT, 2 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 7, 8:20 PM CDT, 4 hours 48 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 7, 11:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 8, 12:03 AM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 8, 12:28 AM CDT, 40 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 8, 1:08 AM CDT, 0 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
Aug 7, 8:40 PM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	DLH	Carlton, Cook, Lake, Pine, Saint Louis	13 hr
Aug 7, 9:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Koochiching	87 min
Aug 7, 10:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Koochiching	33 min
Aug 7, 10:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Koochiching	18 min
Aug 7, 11:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Koochiching	14 min
Aug 7, 11:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Koochiching	25 min
Aug 7, 11:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Koochiching	12 min
Aug 8, 12:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Koochiching	27 min
Aug 8, 12:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Koochiching	32 min
Aug 8, 1:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Itasca	33 min
Aug 8, 1:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Itasca	30 min
Aug 8, 2:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Cass	30 min
Aug 8, 2:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Itasca	34 min
Aug 8, 2:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Cass	32 min
Aug 8, 2:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Itasca	37 min
Aug 8, 4:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Wadena	33 min
Aug 8, 5:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Crow Wing	27 min
Aug 8, 5:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Crow Wing	33 min
Aug 8, 6:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Crow Wing	22 min
Aug 8, 6:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Aitkin, Crow Wing	18 min
Aug 8, 7:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Crow Wing	25 min
Aug 8, 7:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Crow Wing	31 min
Aug 8, 9:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Itasca	17 min
Aug 8, 10:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Itasca	19 min
Aug 8, 10:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Itasca	16 min
Aug 8, 10:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Itasca, Saint Louis	23 min
Aug 8, 2:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Cass, Itasca	36 min
Aug 8, 2:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Cass	33 min
Aug 8, 2:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Aitkin, Cass, Crow Wing	24 min
Aug 8, 2:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Itasca	34 min
Aug 8, 3:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Aitkin, Cass, Crow Wing	29 min
Aug 8, 3:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Saint Louis	24 min
Aug 8, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Crow Wing	26 min
Aug 8, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Aitkin	29 min
Aug 8, 3:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Saint Louis	25 min
Aug 8, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Lake, Saint Louis	24 min
Aug 8, 4:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Saint Louis	19 min
Aug 8, 4:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Aitkin	29 min
Aug 8, 4:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DLH	Saint Louis	36 min
Aug 8, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Lake, Saint Louis	31 min
Aug 8, 4:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Carlton	29 min
Aug 8, 4:53 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	DLH	Lake, Saint Louis	3 hr
Aug 8, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Lake	32 min
Aug 8, 5:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Aitkin, Carlton	27 min
Aug 8, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Carlton, Pine	31 min
Aug 8, 5:36 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	DLH	Aitkin, Cass, Crow Wing	5 hr
Aug 8, 5:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Aitkin	10 min
Aug 8, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Carlton, Pine	47 min
Aug 8, 6:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Aitkin	24 min
Aug 8, 6:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Aitkin	26 min
Aug 8, 6:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Cook	27 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.