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Fire Weather Watch 4, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this fire weather watch at Oct 13, 2020, 2:24 PM CDT for 5 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Oct 14, 2020, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 13, 2020, 2:24 PM CDT (19:24 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 14, 2020, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 14, 2020, 4:03 AM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Brown County, MN, Martin County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:29 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 280 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
- 1402 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this fire weather watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Twin Cities, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this fire weather watch went out at Oct 12, 3:35 PM CDT, 22 hours 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 12, 3:35 PM CDT, 22 hours 49 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 2:15 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 34 more | 34 hr |
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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.