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Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this red flag warning at May 27, 2023, 1:29 PM CDT for Cass County, Itasca County, Koochiching County, Minnesota. It was in force for 8 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 2023, 1:29 PM CDT (18:29 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2023, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
Counties Cass County, MN, Itasca County, MN, Koochiching County, MN
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:32 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 3091 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 2:30 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | DLH | Cass, Itasca, Koochiching | 12 hr |
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.