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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this tornado warning at Sep 19, 2024, 5:56 PM CDT for Carlton County, Saint Louis County, Minnesota; Douglas County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 18 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 19, 2024, 5:56 PM CDT (22:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 19, 2024, 6:14 PM CDT
- In force
- 18 min
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 1.25 in
Counties Carlton County, MN, Saint Louis County, MN, Douglas County, WI
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 19, 5:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Sep 19, 1:51 PM CDT, 4 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 19, 1:51 PM CDT, 4 hours 5 minutes before
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Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Duluth MN
552 PM CDT Thu Sep 19 2024
MNZ011-012-192315-
Northern Cook/Northern Lake MN-North St. Louis MN-
552 PM CDT Thu Sep 19 2024
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT NORTHEASTERN ST. LOUIS AND
NORTHWESTERN LAKE COUNTIES THROUGH 615 PM CDT...
At 552 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
western Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, or 15 miles north of
Ely, moving northeast at 50 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and nickel size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Basswood Lake, Burntside Lake, northwestern Boundary Waters Canoe
Area Wilderness, Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness Near Trout
Lake, Cummings Lake, High Lake, Lake Agnes, Crooked Lake, Fourtown
Lake, Big Moose Lake, and Lac la Croix.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 1100 PM CDT for northeastern
Minnesota.
&&
LAT...LON 4825 9198 4825 9195 4823 9195 4824 9190
4821 9186 4820 9172 4811 9170 4812 9169
4810 9164 4810 9156 4795 9192 4797 9208
4806 9221 4829 9202
TIME...MOT...LOC 2252Z 211DEG 44KT 4812 9196
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
JDSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 19, 1:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Koochiching | 27 min |
| Sep 19, 4:52 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Crow Wing | 23 min |
| Sep 19, 5:12 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Itasca | 33 min |
| Sep 19, 5:32 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Itasca | 28 min |
| Sep 19, 8:37 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Saint Louis | 23 min |
| Sep 19, 9:42 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | 33 min | |
| Sep 19, 3:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Saint Louis | 17 min |
| Sep 19, 4:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | 21 min | |
| Sep 19, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Lake, Saint Louis | 45 min |
| Sep 19, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Saint Louis | 46 min |
| Sep 19, 4:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Pine | 12 min |
| Sep 19, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Saint Louis | 35 min |
| Sep 19, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Carlton, Pine, Saint Louis | 46 min |
| Sep 19, 5:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Saint Louis | 25 min |
| Sep 19, 5:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Carlton | 37 min |
| Sep 19, 5:42 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | DLH | 63 min | |
| Sep 19, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Carlton, Pine, Saint Louis | 47 min |
| Sep 19, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Lake, Saint Louis | 46 min |
| Sep 19, 5:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | 23 min | |
| Sep 19, 6:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Saint Louis | 25 min |
| Sep 19, 6:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Saint Louis | 37 min |
| Sep 19, 6:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Pine | 23 min |
| Sep 19, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Lake, Saint Louis | 30 min |
| Sep 19, 6:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Pine | 33 min |
| Sep 19, 2:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Price | 34 min |
| Sep 19, 3:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Price | 26 min |
| Sep 19, 3:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Price | 31 min |
| Sep 19, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Burnett, Washburn | 39 min |
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The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.