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Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this red flag warning at Mar 30, 2010, 3:38 PM CDT for 6 counties in Wisconsin; 14 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 2 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
- Mar 30, 2010, 3:38 PM CDT (20:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2010, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Martin County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Rice County, MN, Steele County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN, Chippewa County, WI, Dunn County, WI, Eau Claire County, WI, Pepin County, WI, Pierce County, WI, Saint Croix County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:38 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 58 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
- 1543 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 384 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 369 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
455 WWUS83 KMPX 302038 RFWMPX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 338 PM CDT TUE MAR 30 2010 ...THIS IS A CORRECTED PRODUCT. THE RED FLAG WARNING IS FOR THIS AFTERNOON UNTIL 6 PM NOT FOR THURSDAY... .STRONG SOUTH WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE RED FLAG WARNING CONDITIONS ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTHERN MINNESOTA INTO WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN UNTIL 6 PM THIS EVENING. THE RED FLAG WARNING RUNS FROM SOUTH OF THE MINNESOTA RIVER IN THE CANBY AREA THEN THROUGH NEW ULM TO THE MANKATO AREA. IT THEN INCLUDES MUCH OF THE AREA SOUTH FROM RED WING TO MENOMONIE TO THE CHIPPEWA FALLS AREA OF WISCONSIN. SOUTH WINDS OF 20 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS OVER 30 MPH COMBINED WITH RELATIVE HUMIDITY AROUND 25 PERCENT AND DRY FUELS ARE CAUSING THESE CONDITIONS. MNZ064-073>078-082>085-091>093-WIZ023>028-302300- /O.CAN.KMPX.FW.W.0001.100401T2000Z-100401T2300Z/ /O.NEW.KMPX.FW.W.0002.100330T2038Z-100330T2300Z/ YELLOW MEDICINE-REDWOOD-BROWN-NICOLLET-LE SUEUR-RICE-GOODHUE- WATONWAN-BLUE EARTH-WASECA-STEELE-MARTIN-FARIBAULT-FREEBORN- ST. CROIX-PIERCE-DUNN-PEPIN-CHIPPEWA-EAU CLAIRE- 338 PM CDT TUE MAR 30 2010 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING... ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING. THE RED FLAG WARNING FOR THURSDAY WAS IN ERROR AND THIS IS A CORRECTED PRODUCT. STRONG SOUTH WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE RED FLAG WARNING CONDITIONS ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTHERN MINNESOTA INTO WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN UNTIL 6 PM THIS EVENING. THE RED FLAG WARNING RUNS FROM SOUTH OF THE MINNESOTA RIVER IN THE CANBY AREA THEN THROUGH NEW ULM TO THE MANKATO AREA. IT THEN INCLUDES MUCH OF THE AREA SOUTH FROM RED WING TO MENOMONIE TO THE CHIPPEWA FALLS AREA OF WISCONSIN. SOUTH WINDS OF 20 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS OVER 30 MPH COMBINED WITH RELATIVE HUMIDITY AROUND 25 PERCENT AND DRY FUELS ARE CAUSING THESE CONDITIONS. && PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 3:20 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire, Pepin, Pierce, Saint Croix | 18 min |
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in Minnesota, 2010Red Flag Warnings in Wisconsin, 2010Every red flag warning in 2010
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.