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Lake Effect Snow Warning 2, NWS Duluth, MN

December 7, 2016Iron County, Wisconsin

NWS Duluth, MN issued this lake effect snow warning at Dec 7, 2016, 3:13 AM CST for Iron County, Wisconsin. It took effect at Dec 7, 2016, 9:00 PM CST. It was in force for 38 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: Dec 7, 2016, 3:13 AM CST (09:13 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 7, 2016, 9:00 PM CST
Expired: Dec 9, 2016, 11:23 AM CST
In force: 38 hr
Issued by: NWS Duluth, MN

County Iron County, WI

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this lake effect snow warning 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 lake effect snow warning went out at Dec 6, 11:32 PM CST, 3 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 6, 11:32 PM CST, 3 hours 41 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Dec 6, 10:09 PM CST, 5 hours 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, Dec 7, 12:18 AM CST, 2 hours 55 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 7, 4:31 AM CST	Small Craft Advisory	DLH		47 hr
Dec 7, 3:13 AM CST	Lake Effect Snow Advisory	DLH	Ashland, Bayfield	56 hr

Nearby

Lake Effect Snow Warnings in Wisconsin, 2016 Every lake effect snow 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.