Alert archive / Minnesota / Fire Weather Watches in 2015
Fire Weather Watch 1, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this fire weather watch at Mar 11, 2015, 3:04 PM CDT for 7 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Mar 12, 2015, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 11, 2015, 3:04 PM CDT (20:04 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 12, 2015, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 12, 2015, 6:48 AM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Martin County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:05 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 338 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
- 1803 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.