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Wind Advisory 1, NWS Duluth, MN

June 28, 2009Carlton County, Saint Louis County, Minnesota; Douglas County, Wisconsin

NWS Duluth, MN issued this wind advisory at Jun 28, 2009, 3:34 AM CDT for Carlton County, Saint Louis County, Minnesota; Douglas County, Wisconsin. It took effect at Jun 28, 2009, 11:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 28, 2009, 3:34 AM CDT (08:34 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 28, 2009, 11:00 AM CDT
Expired: Jun 28, 2009, 2:45 PM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Duluth, MN

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 08:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 424 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: 1403 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 250 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 362 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Jun 28, 3:27 AM CDT, 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 3:27 AM CDT, 7 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
Jun 27, 7:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Wadena	20 min
Jun 27, 7:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Carlton	20 min
Jun 27, 8:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Carlton	17 min

Nearby

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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.