Alert archive / Minnesota / Fire Weather Watches in 2010
Fire Weather Watch 3, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this fire weather watch at Apr 27, 2010, 3:17 PM CDT for Douglas County, Morrison County, Todd County, Minnesota. It took effect at Apr 28, 2010, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 27, 2010, 3:17 PM CDT (20:17 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 28, 2010, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2010, 3:27 AM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Douglas County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Todd County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:20 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
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2196 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -42 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.