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Special Weather Statement, NWS Duluth, MN

August 4, 2016Price County, Wisconsin

NWS Duluth, MN issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2016, 10:04 AM CDT for Price County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 26 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 4, 2016, 10:04 AM CDT (15:04 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 2016, 10:30 AM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Duluth, MN

County Price County, WI

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 190 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 223 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: 933 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 869 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -24 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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 4, 7:24 AM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 7:24 AM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 4, 9:57 AM CDT, 7 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 4, 8:45 AM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 4, 8:59 AM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 4, 9:21 AM CDT, 43 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 4, 9:28 AM CDT, 36 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 4, 10:04 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 3, 11:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Koochiching	27 min
Aug 4, 12:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Koochiching	31 min
Aug 4, 12:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Itasca	29 min
Aug 4, 12:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Koochiching	25 min
Aug 4, 1:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Itasca	19 min
Aug 4, 1:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Koochiching	28 min
Aug 4, 1:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Itasca	16 min
Aug 4, 1:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Cass	14 min
Aug 4, 1:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Itasca	12 min
Aug 4, 1:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Cass	25 min
Aug 4, 1:56 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	DLH	Cass, Itasca	4 hr
Aug 4, 1:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH		32 min
Aug 4, 2:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Saint Louis	30 min
Aug 4, 2:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Cass	20 min
Aug 4, 2:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Cass	14 min
Aug 4, 2:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Saint Louis	29 min
Aug 4, 2:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Aitkin, Cass, Crow Wing	23 min
Aug 4, 3:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Aitkin, Cass, Crow Wing	29 min
Aug 4, 3:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Saint Louis	28 min
Aug 4, 3:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Carlton	31 min
Aug 4, 3:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Aitkin, Crow Wing	47 min
Aug 4, 3:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Lake	27 min
Aug 4, 3:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Carlton	31 min
Aug 4, 4:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Lake	28 min
Aug 4, 4:12 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	DLH		63 min
Aug 4, 4:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Carlton, Lake, Saint Louis	45 min
Aug 4, 4:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Aitkin, Carlton, Pine	42 min
Aug 4, 5:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Lake	28 min
Aug 4, 5:33 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	DLH		57 min
Aug 4, 5:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Cook	38 min
Aug 4, 9:48 AM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	DLH		8 hr
Aug 4, 4:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Bayfield, Douglas	46 min
Aug 4, 5:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Bayfield, Burnett, Douglas, Sawyer, Washburn	43 min
Aug 4, 5:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Ashland, Bayfield	28 min
Aug 4, 5:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Sawyer, Washburn	25 min
Aug 4, 6:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Sawyer, Washburn	37 min
Aug 4, 7:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Sawyer	28 min
Aug 4, 9:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Price	32 min
Aug 4, 10:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Price	37 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.