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Freeze Warning 2, NWS Duluth, MN

May 27, 20087 counties in Minnesota; 8 counties in Wisconsin

NWS Duluth, MN issued this freeze warning at May 27, 2008, 3:03 PM CDT for 7 counties in Minnesota; 8 counties in Wisconsin. It took effect at May 28, 2008, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 27, 2008, 3:03 PM CDT (20:03 UTC)
In effect from: May 28, 2008, 1:00 AM CDT
Expired: May 28, 2008, 7:01 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Duluth, MN

Counties Carlton County, MN, Cook County, MN, Itasca County, MN, Koochiching County, MN, Lake County, MN, Pine County, MN, Saint Louis County, MN, Ashland County, WI, Bayfield County, WI, Burnett County, WI, Douglas County, WI, Iron County, WI, Price County, WI, Sawyer County, WI, Washburn County, WI

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 235 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1102 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 36 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 freeze warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

Hazardous weather outlook, May 26, 6:35 PM CDT, 20 hours 28 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 4:57 AM CDT	Freeze Watch	DLH	Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca and 4 more	10 hr
May 27, 3:03 PM CDT	Frost Advisory	DLH	Aitkin, Cass, Crow Wing	16 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Wisconsin, 2008 Freeze Warnings in Minnesota, 2008 Every freeze warning in 2008

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.