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Frost Advisory 3, NWS Duluth, MN

June 11, 20204 counties in Minnesota

NWS Duluth, MN issued this frost advisory at Jun 11, 2020, 7:32 PM CDT for 4 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Jun 12, 2020, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 11, 2020, 7:32 PM CDT (00:32 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 12, 2020, 1:00 AM CDT
Expired
Jun 12, 2020, 7:00 AM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Duluth, MN

Counties Cook County, MN, Koochiching County, MN, Lake County, MN, Saint Louis County, MN

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:31 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

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 478 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 2020-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 10 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 2020-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 81 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1884 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 7:22 AM CDTFrost AdvisoryDLHCarlton, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake, Saint Louis23 hr

Nearby

Frost Advisories in Minnesota, 2020Every frost advisory in 2020

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.