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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Duluth, MN

September 4, 2017Cass County, Crow Wing County, Minnesota

NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 4, 2017, 1:07 PM CDT for Cass County, Crow Wing County, Minnesota. It was in force for 38 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
Sep 4, 2017, 1:07 PM CDT (18:07 UTC)
Expired
Sep 4, 2017, 1:45 PM CDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Duluth, MN
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.25 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Cass County, MN, Crow Wing County, MN

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 213 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2017-09-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2017-09-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -227 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1294 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-227 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-186 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 Sep 4, 12:38 PM CDT, 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 4, 12:38 PM CDT, 29 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 4, 10:07 AM CDT, 3 hours before
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Special weather statement, Sep 4, 12:16 PM CDT, 51 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Sep 4, 12:23 PM CDT, 44 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 3, 7:03 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLHKoochiching27 min
Sep 3, 8:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLHSaint Louis30 min
Sep 3, 8:38 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLHItasca37 min
Sep 3, 8:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHLake, Saint Louis29 min
Sep 3, 9:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHAitkin, Itasca, Saint Louis41 min
Sep 3, 9:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHCook, Lake16 min
Sep 3, 9:25 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningDLH35 min
Sep 3, 9:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHAitkin, Carlton, Saint Louis25 min
Sep 3, 9:58 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningDLH32 min
Sep 3, 10:21 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLHCarlton24 min
Sep 4, 3:48 AM CDTSmall Craft AdvisoryDLH54 hr
Sep 4, 10:07 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLHItasca38 min
Sep 4, 12:16 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLHCarlton29 min
Sep 4, 12:23 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLHSaint Louis37 min
Sep 4, 12:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHCass48 min
Sep 3, 10:49 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLHDouglas26 min
Sep 3, 11:18 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLHDouglas27 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.