Alert archive / Minnesota / Red Flag Warnings in 2023
Red Flag Warning 5, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this red flag warning at May 29, 2023, 10:33 AM CDT for Cook County, Lake County, Saint Louis County, Minnesota. It took effect at May 29, 2023, 12:00 PM CDT. 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 29, 2023, 10:33 AM CDT (15:33 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 29, 2023, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- May 29, 2023, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
Counties Cook County, MN, Lake County, MN, Saint Louis County, MN
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:31 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
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 351 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
- 2172 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 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.