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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 164, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 2018, 2:30 PM CDT for Pine County, Minnesota; Burnett County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 45 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
- Aug 27, 2018, 2:30 PM CDT (19:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 2018, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Pine County, MN, Burnett County, WI
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 151 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1465 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 698 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
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 Aug 27, 12:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 27, 12:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 26, 11:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Koochiching | 20 min |
| Aug 27, 12:19 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Koochiching | 26 min |
| Aug 27, 12:57 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Koochiching | 33 min |
| Aug 27, 1:30 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Koochiching | 30 min |
| Aug 27, 1:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Koochiching, Saint Louis | 41 min |
| Aug 27, 1:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cass, Itasca | 38 min |
| Aug 27, 2:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Koochiching, Saint Louis | 60 min |
| Aug 27, 3:34 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Saint Louis | 26 min |
| Aug 27, 4:07 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Lake | 23 min |
| Aug 27, 4:47 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | 28 min | |
| Aug 27, 2:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Aitkin, Pine | 13 min |
| Aug 27, 3:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Carlton | 21 min |
| Aug 27, 4:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Crow Wing | 15 min |
| Aug 27, 4:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Aitkin | 14 min |
| Aug 27, 5:00 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | DLH | 60 min | |
| Aug 27, 5:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Pine | 17 min |
| Aug 27, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Pine | 26 min |
| Aug 27, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Carlton, Pine | 47 min |
| Aug 27, 6:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DLH | Carlton, Pine | 3 hr |
| Aug 27, 3:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Bayfield, Douglas | 17 min |
| Aug 27, 3:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Burnett | 19 min |
| Aug 27, 3:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Douglas | 30 min |
| Aug 27, 3:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Douglas | 24 min |
| Aug 27, 3:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Burnett | 10 min |
| Aug 27, 4:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Douglas, Washburn | 14 min |
| Aug 27, 4:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Bayfield | 43 min |
| Aug 27, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Bayfield, Douglas | 33 min |
| Aug 27, 4:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DLH | Bayfield, Douglas | 6 hr |
| Aug 27, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Ashland, Bayfield, Sawyer | 50 min |
| Aug 27, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Ashland, Iron | 46 min |
| Aug 27, 6:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Iron | 30 min |
| Aug 27, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Burnett, Douglas, Washburn | 41 min |
| Aug 27, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Bayfield, Sawyer, Washburn | 47 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.