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Fire Weather Watch 5, NWS Twin Cities, MN

November 5, 20209 counties in Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this fire weather watch at Nov 5, 2020, 2:55 PM CST for 9 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Nov 6, 2020, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 5, 2020, 2:55 PM CST (20:55 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 6, 2020, 12:00 PM CST
Expired
Nov 6, 2020, 1:58 AM CST
In force
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN

Counties Brown County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:55 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

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 392 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, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 2020-11-05Temperature 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, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 2020-11-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -65 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2577 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-6 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.