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Freeze Warning 1, NWS Duluth, MN

May 24, 2011Cook County, Lake County, Minnesota

NWS Duluth, MN issued this freeze warning at May 24, 2011, 11:39 PM CDT for Cook County, Lake County, Minnesota. It took effect at May 25, 2011, 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 24, 2011, 11:39 PM CDT (04:39 UTC)
In effect from: May 25, 2011, 1:00 AM CDT
Expired: May 25, 2011, 7:00 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Duluth, MN

Counties Cook County, MN, Lake County, MN

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

NWS Duluth, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze warning went out at May 24, 9:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 9:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 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 25, 1:36 PM CDT	Frost Advisory	DLH	Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Crow Wing, Pine, Saint Louis	18 hr
May 25, 1:36 PM CDT	Freeze Warning	DLH	Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake, Saint Louis	18 hr
May 25, 3:51 PM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	DLH		30 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Minnesota, 2011 Every freeze warning in 2011

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.