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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 22, 2025, 9:28 PM CDT for Koochiching County, Minnesota. It was in force for 32 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 22, 2025, 9:28 PM CDT (02:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2025, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.75 in
County Koochiching County, MN
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 196 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 2:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 1210 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -154 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 688 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 518 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 797 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 35.4
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 Jun 22, 6:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 6:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 22, 4:27 PM CDT, 5 hours 1 minute before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Duluth MN 427 PM CDT Sun Jun 22 2025 MNZ010>012-018>021-025-026-033>038-WIZ001>004-006>009-232130- Koochiching-North St. Louis-Northern Cook/Northern Lake- North Itasca-Central St. Louis-Southern Lake/North Shore- Southern Cook/North Shore-North Cass-South Itasca-South Cass- Crow Wing-Northern Aitkin-South Aitkin-Carlton/South St. Louis- Pine-Douglas-Bayfield-Ashland-Iron-Burnett-Washburn-Sawyer-Price- 427 PM CDT Sun Jun 22 2025 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of northeast Minnesota and northwest Wisconsin. .DAY ONE...Tonight Dangerously hot weather continues today, with heat index values from 95 to 105 degrees expected. Extreme Heat Warnings and Heat Advisories are in effect. Strong to maybe severe thunderstorms are possible this evening into tonight mainly in northern Minnesota. Damaging winds and large hail as the main threats. High rip current activity today along Lake Superior beaches in the Twin Ports is expected to create dangerous swim conditions. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday There is a low end potential for isolated severe storms across inland north central Wisconsin Monday mid day to late afternoon. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Skywarn spotters are encouraged to report hail of any size and rainfall amounts to the National Weather Service. LSZ121-140>148-150-232130- Bayfield to Oak Point WI-Grand Portage to Grand Marais MN- Grand Marais to Taconite Harbor MN- Taconite Harbor to Silver Bay Harbor MN- Silver Bay Harbor to Two Harbors MN-Two Harbors to Duluth MN- Duluth MN to Port Wing WI-Port Wing to Sand Island WI- Sand Island to Bayfield WI-Oak Point to Saxon Harbor WI- Outer Apostle Islands Beyond 5 NM from Mainland- 427 PM CDT Sun Jun 22 2025 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of Lake Superior and the Nearshore waters of western Lake Superior. .DAY ONE...Tonight Elevated waves and winds gusting around 25 knots through today are expected to create conditions hazardous to small craft. Strong to severe thunderstorms are possible tonight. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday Thunderstorms are possible along the South Shore Monday morning to mid afternoon. Wolfe More information may be obtained at the following web address: http://www.weather.gov/duluth
The office that day
Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 8:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Koochiching | 23 min |
| Jun 22, 8:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Koochiching | 50 min |
| Jun 22, 9:16 PM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | DLH | Carlton, Saint Louis | 9 hr |
| Jun 22, 9:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Koochiching | 56 min |
| Jun 23, 1:41 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | DLH | 14 hr | |
| Jun 23, 2:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Cass, Crow Wing, Itasca | 64 min |
| Jun 23, 2:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Aitkin | 28 min |
| Jun 23, 3:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Itasca, Saint Louis | 58 min |
| Jun 23, 3:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Lake, Saint Louis | 46 min |
| Jun 23, 4:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cook, Lake, Saint Louis | 63 min |
| Jun 23, 4:35 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | DLH | 55 min | |
| Jun 23, 5:25 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | DLH | 35 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.