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Fire Weather Watch 2, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this fire weather watch at May 5, 2021, 2:47 PM CDT for 8 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at May 6, 2021, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 2021, 2:47 PM CDT (19:47 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 6, 2021, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- May 6, 2021, 3:26 AM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
Counties Aitkin County, MN, Carlton County, MN, Cass County, MN, Crow Wing County, MN, Itasca County, MN, Koochiching County, MN, Pine County, MN, Saint Louis County, MN
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 1308 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.