Alert archive / Minnesota / Wind Chill Warnings in 2013
Wind Chill Warning 1, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this wind chill warning at Jan 20, 2013, 3:59 AM CST for 10 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Jan 21, 2013, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for 35 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
- Jan 20, 2013, 3:59 AM CST (09:59 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 21, 2013, 12:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Jan 22, 2013, 10:43 AM CST
- In force
- 35 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
Counties Aitkin County, MN, Carlton County, MN, Cass County, MN, Cook County, MN, Crow Wing County, MN, Itasca County, MN, Koochiching County, MN, Lake County, MN, Pine County, MN, Saint Louis County, MN
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:00 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 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 689 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind chill 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 wind chill warning went out at Jan 19, 11:32 PM CST, 4 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 19, 11:32 PM CST, 4 hours 27 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 19, 3:49 PM CST, 12 hours 10 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 349 PM CST SAT JAN 19 2013 MNZ010>012-018>021-025-026-033>038-WIZ001>004-006>009-201300- KOOCHICHING-NORTHERN ST. LOUIS-NORTHERN COOK/NORTHERN LAKE- NORTHERN ITASCA-CENTRAL ST. LOUIS-SOUTHERN LAKE/LAKESHORE- SOUTHERN COOK/LAKESHORE-NORTHERN CASS-SOUTHERN ITASCA- SOUTHERN CASS-CROW WING-NORTHERN AITKIN-SOUTHERN AITKIN- CARLTON/SOUTHERN ST. LOUIS-PINE-DOUGLAS-BAYFIELD-ASHLAND-IRON- BURNETT-WASHBURN-SAWYER-PRICE- 349 PM CST SAT JAN 19 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT STRONG WINDS AND PLUMMETING TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE NORTHLAND THROUGH TONIGHT. MULTIPLE HEADLINES HAVE BEEN ISSUED FOR THE NORTHLAND. A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN...AS WELL AS THE NORTH SHORE...BECAUSE OF EXPECTED 20 TO 30 MPH WINDS WITH GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. A WIND CHILL ADVISORY WAS ISSUED FOR THE ENTIRE NORTHLAND FOR TONIGHT INTO TOMORROW MORNING DUE TO WIND CHILL VALUES PLUMMETING TO 25 TO 40 DEGREES BELOW ZERO. A LAKE EFFECT SNOW ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR THE GOGEBIC RANGE IN IRON COUNTY THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING DUE TO AN EXPECTED 3 TO 7 INCHES OF SNOW. THERE COULD BE BLOWING SNOW AND DRAMATICALLY REDUCED VISIBILITY FROM THE COMBINATION OF THE STRONG WINDS AND HEAVIER LAKE EFFECT SNOW SHOWERS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY IN MORE EXPOSED AREAS. THERE COULD ALSO BE REDUCED VISIBILITY ACROSS THE NORTHLAND FROM THE COMBINATION OF THE STRONG WINDS AND FRESH SNOW THAT FELL YESTERDAY. FOR FURTHER DETAILS...PLEASE REFER THE THE LATEST WINTER WEATHER PRODUCT ISSUED BY THE DULUTH WEATHER FORECAST OFFICE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY VERY COLD TEMPERATURES AND WIND CHILL VALUES WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT THE NORTHLAND SUNDAY MORNING...AND LAKE EFFECT SNOW WILL CONTINUE TO THE AFFECT THE GOGEBIC RANGE THROUGH AT LEAST SUNDAY MORNING. AS A RESULT...THE WIND CHILL AND LAKE EFFECT SNOW ADVISORIES WILL CONTINUE UNTIL NOON SUNDAY. FOR FURTHER DETAILS...PLEASE REFER THE THE LATEST WINTER WEATHER PRODUCT ISSUED BY THE DULUTH WEATHER FORECAST OFFICE. WIND CHILL VALUES WILL PLUMMET AGAIN SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY MORNING...AS WELL AS MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY MORNING. HEADLINES WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED SINCE THE HAZARDOUS TO POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS WIND CHILLS ARE LIKELY. FOR INSTANCE...WIND CHILL VALUES COULD APPROACH 50 DEGREES BELOW ZERO ACROSS NORTHERN MINNESOTA SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY MORNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT. GROCHOCINSKI MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING WEB ADDRESS: HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/DULUTH (ALL LOWER CASE)
The office that day
Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 6:20 PM CST | Wind Advisory | DLH | Cook, Lake, Saint Louis | 9 hr |
| Jan 20, 3:59 AM CST | Wind Chill Advisory | DLH | Ashland, Bayfield, Burnett, Douglas, Iron, Price and 2 more | 55 hr |
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.