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Fire Weather Watch 3, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this fire weather watch at Apr 5, 2024, 2:16 PM CDT for 14 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Apr 6, 2024, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 5, 2024, 2:16 PM CDT (19:16 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 6, 2024, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 6, 2024, 2:40 AM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Brown County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Martin County, MN, Pope County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Todd County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 244 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
- 1914 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 2:03 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | MPX | Brown, Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Martin, Redwood, Stevens and 3 more | 35 hr |
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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.