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Wind Chill Advisory 15, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this wind chill advisory at Dec 17, 2016, 3:05 PM CST for 10 counties in Minnesota; 8 counties in Wisconsin. It took effect at Dec 17, 2016, 7:00 PM CST. It was in force for 35 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 17, 2016, 3:05 PM CST (21:05 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 17, 2016, 7:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Dec 19, 2016, 6:00 AM CST
- In force
- 35 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
Counties Aitkin County, MN, Carlton County, MN, Cass County, MN, Cook County, MN, Crow Wing County, MN, Itasca County, MN, Koochiching County, MN, Lake County, MN, Pine County, MN, Saint Louis County, MN, Ashland County, WI, Bayfield County, WI, Burnett County, WI, Douglas County, WI, Iron County, WI, Price County, WI, Sawyer County, WI, Washburn County, WI
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:10 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
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 401 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
- 672 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 250 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind chill advisory 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 wind chill advisory went out at Dec 16, 4:36 PM CST, 22 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 16, 4:36 PM CST, 22 hours 29 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 16, 3:51 PM CST, 23 hours 14 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 351 PM CST FRI DEC 16 2016 MNZ010>012-018>021-025-026-033>038-WIZ001>004-006>009-171245- KOOCHICHING-NORTH ST. LOUIS-NORTHERN COOK/NORTHERN LAKE- NORTH ITASCA-CENTRAL ST. LOUIS-SOUTHERN LAKE/NORTH SHORE- SOUTHERN COOK/NORTH SHORE-NORTH CASS-SOUTH ITASCA-SOUTH CASS- CROW WING-NORTHERN AITKIN-SOUTH AITKIN-CARLTON/SOUTH ST. LOUIS- PINE-DOUGLAS-BAYFIELD-ASHLAND-IRON-BURNETT-WASHBURN-SAWYER-PRICE- 351 PM CST FRI DEC 16 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SNOW WILL SLOWLY OVERSPREAD THE REGION FOR THE REST OF THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...AND BECOME HEAVY AT TIMES OVERNIGHT TONIGHT. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORIES AND WARNINGS HAVE BEEN ISSUED FOR AREAS ROUGHLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM THE BRAINERD LAKES REGION TO THE TWIN PORTS AND ACROSS ALL OF NORTHWEST WISCONSIN. IN ADDITION...COLD TEMPERATURES COMBINED WITH WIND WILL PRODUCE DANGEROUS WIND CHILL VALUES FOR NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA TONIGHT. PLEASE SEE THE LATEST WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE AND ZONE FORECASTS FOR MORE DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THE SNOW WILL DIMINISH FROM WEST TO EAST THROUGH THE DAY ON SATURDAY...WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE SNOWBELT REGION ALONG THE SOUTH SHORE OF LAKE SUPERIOR WHICH WILL SEE SNOW CONTINUE SATURDAY NIGHT. VARIOUS WINTER WEATHER ADVISORIES AND WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT ON SATURDAY WITH SOME LINGERING INTO SATURDAY EVENING. PLEASE SEE THE LATEST WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE AND ZONE FORECASTS FOR MORE DETAILS. COLDER AIR WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY. THIS WILL RESULT IN LOW WIND CHILLS OF 20 BELOW TO 30 BELOW OVER PARTS OF NORTHERN MINNESOTA ON SATURDAY. THE LOWEST WIND CHILLS OF 30 BELOW TO 40 BELOW ZERO WILL OCCUR SATURDAY NIGHT WITH VALUES DROPPING BACK TO 25 BELOW TO 35 BELOW SUNDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SNOW SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO REPORT THEIR SNOWFALL MEASUREMENTS TONIGHT AND SATURDAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LSZ121-140>148-171245- BAYFIELD TO OAK POINT WI-GRAND PORTAGE TO GRAND MARAIS MN- GRAND MARAIS TO TACONITE HARBOR MN- TACONITE HARBOR TO SILVER BAY HARBOR MN- SILVER BAY HARBOR TO TWO HARBORS MN-TWO HARBORS TO DULUTH MN- DULUTH MN TO PORT WING WI-PORT WING TO SAND ISLAND WI- SAND ISLAND TO BAYFIELD WI-OAK POINT TO SAXON HARBOR WI- 351 PM CST FRI DEC 16 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE NEARSHORE WATERS OF WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT STRONG NORTHERLY WINDS WILL DEVELOP THIS EVENING OVER MUCH OF WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR. WAVES WILL BUILD THE MOST ALONG THE SOUTH SHORE AND A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MUCH OF THE SOUTH SHORE. SEE THE LATEST MARINE WEATHER MESSAGE AND NEARSHORE MARINE FORECAST FOR MORE DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY STRONG NORTH WINDS SATURDAY WILL BACK TO NORTHWEST LATE INTO SATURDAY NIGHT. CONDITIONS WILL BE HAZARDOUS...ESPECIALLY FOR SMALL CRAFT. A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MUCH OF THE SOUTH SHORE. SEE THE LATEST MARINE WEATHER MESSAGE AND NEARSHORE MARINE FORECAST FOR MORE DETAILS. LE MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING WEB ADDRESS: HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/DULUTH (ALL LOWER CASE)
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.