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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Duluth, MN

June 10, 2016Sawyer County, Washburn County, Wisconsin

NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2016, 2:35 PM CDT for Sawyer County, Washburn County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 40 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: Jun 10, 2016, 2:35 PM CDT (19:35 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2016, 3:15 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Duluth, MN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Sawyer County, WI, Washburn County, WI

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 203 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: 746 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -336 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1531 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 236 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 229 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 Jun 10, 12:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 12:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 10, 9:58 AM CDT, 4 hours 37 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 10, 1:50 PM CDT, 45 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 10, 1:55 PM CDT, 40 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 10, 2:05 PM CDT, 30 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 10, 2:10 PM CDT, 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 10, 2:29 PM CDT, 6 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 10, 2:32 PM 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
Jun 10, 3:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Aitkin	10 min
Jun 10, 4:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Saint Louis	14 min
Jun 10, 4:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Carlton	25 min
Jun 10, 4:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Saint Louis	30 min
Jun 10, 4:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Carlton	10 min
Jun 10, 4:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH		37 min
Jun 10, 5:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Itasca	13 min
Jun 10, 5:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Itasca	28 min
Jun 10, 6:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Saint Louis	10 min
Jun 10, 6:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Itasca	37 min
Jun 10, 9:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Cook	29 min
Jun 10, 11:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Cass, Crow Wing	52 min
Jun 10, 11:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Aitkin, Saint Louis	53 min
Jun 10, 12:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Aitkin, Carlton	25 min
Jun 10, 12:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Saint Louis	23 min
Jun 10, 1:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Saint Louis	16 min
Jun 10, 1:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Lake	14 min
Jun 10, 1:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Lake	10 min
Jun 10, 1:57 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	DLH		48 min
Jun 10, 2:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Cook	25 min
Jun 10, 2:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Cook	23 min
Jun 10, 2:40 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	DLH		35 min
Jun 10, 3:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Cook	23 min
Jun 10, 2:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Ashland, Bayfield	45 min
Jun 10, 2:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Bayfield, Washburn	20 min
Jun 10, 2:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Washburn	16 min
Jun 10, 2:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Ashland, Iron	45 min
Jun 10, 3:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Price	17 min
Jun 10, 3:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Iron, Price	31 min
Jun 10, 3:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Iron	24 min
Jun 10, 3:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Price	22 min
Jun 10, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Price	32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 2016 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2016

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.