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Blizzard Warning 1, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this blizzard warning at Apr 2, 2025, 1:53 PM CDT for Cook County, Lake County, Saint Louis County, Minnesota. It was in force for 7 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
- Apr 2, 2025, 1:53 PM CDT (18:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2025, 9:18 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 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 18:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 822 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 246 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this blizzard warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Duluth, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this blizzard warning went out at Apr 1, 6:26 PM CDT, 19 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 1, 6:26 PM CDT, 19 hours 27 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 9:50 AM CDT | Storm Warning | DLH | 12 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.