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Fire Weather Watch 9, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this fire weather watch at Oct 15, 2024, 2:11 PM CDT for 10 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Oct 16, 2024, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 15, 2024, 2:11 PM CDT (19:11 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 16, 2024, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 16, 2024, 2:18 AM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Chippewa County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Pope County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:11 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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 1225 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this fire weather watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Twin Cities, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this fire weather watch went out at Oct 14, 2:39 PM CDT, 23 hours 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 14, 2:39 PM CDT, 23 hours 32 minutes before
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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.