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Fire Weather Watch 5, NWS Twin Cities, MN

April 1, 201537 counties in Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this fire weather watch at Apr 1, 2015, 3:38 AM CDT for 37 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Apr 2, 2015, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 39 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 1, 2015, 3:38 AM CDT (08:38 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 2, 2015, 10:00 AM CDT
Expired: Apr 2, 2015, 10:39 AM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN

All 37 counties

Anoka County, MN, Benton County, MN, Brown County, MN, Carver County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Chisago County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Isanti County, MN, Kanabec County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Pope County, MN, Ramsey County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Rice County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Steele County, MN, Swift County, MN, Todd County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Washington County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Wright County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 42 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2453 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 142 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 fire weather watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Twin Cities, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this fire weather watch went out at Mar 31, 10:47 PM CDT, 4 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 31, 10:47 PM CDT, 4 hours 51 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 31, 7:14 PM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	MPX	Blue Earth, Faribault, Freeborn, Goodhue, Le Sueur, Martin and 3 more	8 hr
Apr 1, 3:38 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Brown, Faribault, Freeborn, Goodhue, Le Sueur and 8 more	15 hr
Apr 1, 1:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Chisago, Isanti	39 min
Apr 1, 1:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Chisago	46 min
Apr 1, 3:50 PM CDT	Red Flag Warning	MPX	Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Douglas and 24 more	19 hr
Apr 1, 5:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Sherburne	38 min
Apr 1, 6:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Sherburne, Wright	43 min
Apr 1, 6:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Anoka, Hennepin, Ramsey	46 min

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.