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Fire Weather Watch 3, NWS Grand Forks, ND

May 21, 2016Beltrami County, Hubbard County, Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this fire weather watch at May 21, 2016, 3:12 PM CDT for Beltrami County, Hubbard County, Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota. It took effect at May 22, 2016, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 21, 2016, 3:12 PM CDT (20:12 UTC)
In effect from
May 22, 2016, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired
May 22, 2016, 6:21 AM CDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND

Counties Beltrami County, MN, Hubbard County, MN, Lake of the Woods County, MN

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 186 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 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

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 138 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, International Fa, MN at 12:00Z on 2016-05-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, International Fa, MN at 12:00Z on 2016-05-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 12 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2313 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.