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Freeze Warning 2, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this freeze warning at Sep 17, 2014, 3:11 PM CDT for Cook County, Lake County, Minnesota. It took effect at Sep 18, 2014, 12:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 5 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
- Sep 17, 2014, 3:11 PM CDT (20:11 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 18, 2014, 12:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Sep 18, 2014, 4:52 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 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 20:13 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 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 887 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Sep 17, 12:37 PM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 17, 12:37 PM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 17, 5:44 AM CDT, 9 hours 27 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 544 AM CDT WED SEP 17 2014 MNZ010>012-018>021-025-026-033>038-WIZ001>004-006>009-181045- 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- 544 AM CDT WED SEP 17 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT AREAS OF FROST ARE EXPECTED OVER THE ARROWHEAD OF MINNESOTA AND ACROSS THE INTERIOR OF NORTHWEST WISCONSIN TONIGHT. A FEW LOCATIONS MAY BRIEFLY EXPERIENCE SUB FREEZING TEMPERATURES IN PRICE COUNTY. A FREEZE WARNING MAY BE REQUIRED. DANGEROUS SWIMMING CONDITIONS WILL BE FOUND ALONG PARK POINT BEACH...AND SUPERIOR POINT...IN THE TWIN PORTS THIS AFTERNOON. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST SURF FORECAST FOR MORE DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY. THE RISK FOR SEVERE STORMS IS LOW...BUT A PERIOD OF HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE LATE IN THE WEEK AND EARLY IN THE WEEKEND. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT. LSZ121-140>148-181045- BAYFIELD TO OAK POINT WI-GRAND PORTAGE TO GRAND MARAIS MN- GRAND MARAIS TO TACONITE HARBOR MN- TACONITE HARBOR TO SILVER BAY HARBOR MN- SILVER BAY HARBOR TO TWO HARBORS MN-TWO HARBORS TO DULUTH MN- DULUTH MN TO PORT WING WI-PORT WING TO SAND ISLAND WI- SAND ISLAND TO BAYFIELD WI-OAK POINT TO SAXON HARBOR WI- 544 AM CDT WED SEP 17 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE NEARSHORE WATERS OF WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NORTHEAST WINDS WILL INCREASE ACROSS WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR TODAY...REACHING THE TWIN PORTS THIS AFTERNOON. WAVE HEIGHTS AND GUSTY WINDS WILL BECOME HAZARDOUS TO SMALL CRAFT. PLEASE CHECK THE NEARSHORE FORECAST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY INCREASING SOUTHWEST WINDS FRIDAY MAY PRODUCE HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS OVER WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY. GRANING 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 5:30 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | DLH | 23 hr | |
| Sep 17, 8:16 AM CDT | Beach Hazards Statement | DLH | Carlton, Saint Louis | 13 hr |
| Sep 17, 3:11 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | DLH | Koochiching, Lake, Saint Louis | 14 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.