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Blizzard Warning 2, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this blizzard warning at Mar 23, 2024, 3:35 AM CDT for Cook County, Lake County, Saint Louis County, Minnesota. It took effect at Mar 24, 2024, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 31 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
- Mar 23, 2024, 3:35 AM CDT (08:35 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 24, 2024, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2024, 8:21 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 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 08:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 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
- 1659 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 3:27 AM CDT | Gale Warning | DLH | 4 days | |
| Mar 23, 3:27 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | DLH | 3 days | |
| Mar 23, 3:35 AM CDT | Winter Storm Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca and 4 more | 4 days |
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.