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Fire Weather Watch 3, NWS Twin Cities, MN

May 27, 20238 counties in Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this fire weather watch at May 27, 2023, 1:33 PM CDT for 8 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at May 28, 2023, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 27, 2023, 1:33 PM CDT (18:33 UTC)
In effect from
May 28, 2023, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired
May 28, 2023, 2:37 AM CDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN

Counties Chippewa County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Pope County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Todd County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 174 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:37 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

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 395 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, International Fa, MN at 12:00Z on 2023-05-27Temperature 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, International Fa, MN at 12:00Z on 2023-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 144 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
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

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 1:33 PM CDTRed Flag WarningMPXChippewa, Douglas, Lac qui Parle, Pope, Stevens, Swift and 2 more7 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.