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Freeze Warning 1, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this freeze warning at May 13, 2016, 2:44 PM CDT for 4 counties in Minnesota; Burnett County, Washburn County, Wisconsin. It took effect at May 14, 2016, 2:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 7 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
- May 13, 2016, 2:44 PM CDT (19:44 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 14, 2016, 2:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- May 14, 2016, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
Counties Aitkin County, MN, Cass County, MN, Crow Wing County, MN, Pine County, MN, Burnett County, WI, Washburn County, WI
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:46 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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 440 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
- 569 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -193 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 9:55 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | DLH | 24 hr |
Nearby
Freeze Warnings in Minnesota, 2016Freeze Warnings in Wisconsin, 2016Every freeze warning in 2016
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.