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Fire Weather Watch 7, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this fire weather watch at Apr 12, 2015, 2:54 PM CDT for 17 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Apr 13, 2015, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 12, 2015, 2:54 PM CDT (19:54 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 13, 2015, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 13, 2015, 2:17 AM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Benton County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Kanabec County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Pope County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Todd County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 1575 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Apr 12, 1:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 12, 1:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 12, 12:52 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1252 PM CDT SUN APR 12 2015 MNZ051>053-059>063-066>070-075>078-082>085-091>093-WIZ014>016- 023>028-131800- SHERBURNE-ISANTI-CHISAGO-WRIGHT-HENNEPIN-ANOKA-RAMSEY-WASHINGTON- MCLEOD-SIBLEY-CARVER-SCOTT-DAKOTA-NICOLLET-LE SUEUR-RICE-GOODHUE- WATONWAN-BLUE EARTH-WASECA-STEELE-MARTIN-FARIBAULT-FREEBORN-POLK- BARRON-RUSK-ST. CROIX-PIERCE-DUNN-PEPIN-CHIPPEWA-EAU CLAIRE- 1252 PM CDT SUN APR 12 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA...EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA...NORTHWEST WISCONSIN AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY ACROSS MOST OF MINNESOTA AND WESTERN WISCONSIN LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A STORM OR TWO COULD BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. MNZ041>045-047>050-054>058-064-065-073-074-131800- DOUGLAS-TODD-MORRISON-MILLE LACS-KANABEC-STEVENS-POPE-STEARNS- BENTON-LAC QUI PARLE-SWIFT-CHIPPEWA-KANDIYOHI-MEEKER- YELLOW MEDICINE-RENVILLE-REDWOOD-BROWN- 1252 PM CDT SUN APR 12 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA...EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY ACROSS MOST OF MINNESOTA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A STORM OR TWO COULD BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE MONDAY AND TUESDAY IN MINNESOTA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 4:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Stearns | 46 min |
| Apr 12, 4:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Mille Lacs | 33 min |
| Apr 12, 4:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Stearns | 37 min |
| Apr 12, 5:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Meeker | 33 min |
| Apr 12, 5:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Sherburne | 37 min |
| Apr 12, 5:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Sherburne | 24 min |
| Apr 12, 6:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Sherburne | 29 min |
| Apr 12, 6:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Carver | 32 min |
| Apr 12, 6:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Isanti | 26 min |
| Apr 12, 6:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Anoka | 32 min |
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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.