Thunderstorm Wind, Crow Wing
- When
- July 13, 12:28 AM CST
- Where
- Crow Wing County, Pequot Lakes
- Measured
- 55 kt (63 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 46.600, -94.317
Numerous trees were blown down.
Damaging Wind in Minnesota, July 13, 2004
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jul 12, 2:30 PM CST, 9 hours 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 12, 2:30 PM CST, 9 hours 58 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 330 PM CDT MON JUL 12 2004 .DISCUSSION...MAIN FOCUS FOR TONIGHT IS SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL. THE ATMOSPHERE WAS DESTABILIZING AS OF 20Z...WITH TEMPS IN THE 80S AND DEWPOINTS OF 65 TO 70. THE COLD FRONT WAS STRETCHED OUT FROM NW/NC MN TO WC MN. IT LOOKS LIKE STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS ARE STILL POSSIBLE IN THE VICINITY OF THE FRONT THIS LATE AFTERNOON/EVENING... BUT THERE ARE A FEW NEGATIVE FACTORS TO CONSIDER. THE POSITIVE FACTORS ARE THE MOISTURE...INSTABILITY AND SHEAR VALUES. ON THE NEGATIVE SIDE...SURFACE FORCING COULD DEFINITELY BE BETTER. NOT A LOT OF WIND CONVERGENCE ALONG THE FRONT...WITH SW WINDS SWITCHING TO W/NW BEHIND THE FRONT. ALSO...THE BEST PVA IS ALONG THE INTERNATIONAL BORDER...AND THE BEST H3 DIVERGENCE IS NORTH OF THE BORDER. NONETHLESS...SHEAR VALUES ARE HIGH...AND H5 WINDS ARE STRONG. AN ANALYSIS OF BUFKIT DATA SUGGESTS THE CIN VALUES WILL DROP TO LOW ENOUGH VALUES TO BE OVERCOME BY THE PROJECTED FORCING... SO WILL DEFINITELY CARRY POPS ACROSS THE CWA TONIGHT. IF THE STORMS DO DEVELOP...THEY WILL BE ABLE TO MAINTAIN THEMSELVES GIVEN THE AMOUNT OF SHEAR AND INSTABILITY. FOR TUESDAY...THE PARENT UPPER LEVEL TROUGH CURRENTLY OVER THE MANITOBA LAKES REGION WILL DROP DOWN ACROSS THE LAKE SUPERIOR REGION. WITH COOL H5 TEMPS AND PLENTY OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE...THERE WILL BE SOME SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED STORMS ON TUESDAY. SURFACE RIDGING PUSHES IN AGAIN TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY... AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN FROM THE DAKOTAS. NO MAJOR SYSTEMS ARE EXPECTED FOR THE REST OF THE WORK WEEK...BUT SHORTWAVES MOVING IN FROM THE NORTHWEST COULD BRING PERIODIC BOUTS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. TEMPS WILL BE NEAR NORMAL OR JUST ABOVE NORMAL OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. MOS GUIDANCE NUMBERS NOT ALL THAT DIFFERENT...AND WILL USE A BLEND OF MOS/MESOETA SFC TEMPS FOR THE DETAILS. .DLH...WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES MN...NONE. WI...NONE. DAP
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 12, 6:18 AM CST, 18 hours 10 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 718 AM CDT MON JUL 12 2004 MNZ010>012-018>021-025-026-033>038-WIZ001>004-006>009-131230- ASHLAND-BAYFIELD-BURNETT-C. ST. LOUIS-CROW WING-DOUGLAS-IRON- KOOCHICHING-N. AITKIN-N. CASS-N. ITASCA-N. LAKE/N. COOK-N. ST. LOUIS- PINE-PRICE-S. AITKIN-S. CASS-S. COOK/LAKESHORE-S. ITASCA- S. LAKE/LAKESHORE-S. ST. LOUIS/CARLTON-SAWYER-WASHBURN- 718 AM CDT MON JUL 12 2004 ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA AND NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE NORTHLAND TODAY. DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE. MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TONIGHT...BUT MAINLY NEAR THE CANADIAN BORDER. LOCALLY DENSE FOG WILL LINGER THIS MORNING AS WELL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ON TUESDAY. THE SEVERE THREAT AREA INCLUDES AREAS EAST OF A LINE FROM ASHLAND TO HAYWARD IN NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED FROM FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED. && MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING URL: HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/DLH SHIMON
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 163 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:27 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Illinois, July 13, 2004
- Strong Wind in South Carolina, July 13, 2004
- Heat in Tennessee, July 13, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, July 13 to 14, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, July 13, 2004
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Georgia, July 13 to 14, 2004
- Tornado and Hail in Wisconsin, July 13, 2004
- Hail in Iowa, July 13, 2004
- Wildfire in California, July 13 to 16, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, July 13, 2004
- Damaging Winds and High Wind in Indiana, July 13, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, July 13, 2004
More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5417177.