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Frost Advisory 3, NWS Duluth, MN

September 12, 20148 counties in Minnesota; 8 counties in Wisconsin

NWS Duluth, MN issued this frost advisory at Sep 12, 2014, 3:18 PM CDT for 8 counties in Minnesota; 8 counties in Wisconsin. It took effect at Sep 13, 2014, 3:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 12, 2014, 3:18 PM CDT (20:18 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 13, 2014, 3:00 AM CDT
Expired
Sep 13, 2014, 8:00 AM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Duluth, MN

Counties Aitkin County, MN, Carlton County, MN, Cass County, MN, Cook County, MN, Crow Wing County, MN, Lake County, MN, Pine County, MN, Saint Louis County, MN, Ashland County, WI, Bayfield County, WI, Burnett County, WI, Douglas County, WI, Iron County, WI, Price County, WI, Sawyer County, WI, Washburn County, WI

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:24 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 229 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2014-09-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 13 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2014-09-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -62 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
13 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
950 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-28 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this frost advisory 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 frost advisory went out at Sep 11, 6:59 PM CDT, 20 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 11, 6:59 PM CDT, 20 hours 19 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 12, 3:18 PM CDTFreeze WarningDLHCook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake, Saint Louis17 hr

Nearby

Frost Advisories in Minnesota, 2014Frost Advisories in Wisconsin, 2014Every frost advisory in 2014

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.