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Wind Advisory 10, NWS Duluth, MN

March 14, 2025Cook County, Lake County, Saint Louis County, Minnesota

NWS Duluth, MN issued this wind advisory at Mar 14, 2025, 8:29 PM CDT for Cook County, Lake County, Saint Louis County, Minnesota. It took effect at Mar 15, 2025, 6:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 14, 2025, 8:29 PM CDT (01:29 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 15, 2025, 6:00 PM CDT
Expired: Mar 16, 2025, 4:00 AM CDT
In force: 10 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 01:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 645 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -82 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2144 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 230 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 237 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.7

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Mar 14, 6:57 PM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 6:57 PM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 15, 8:43 AM CDT	Winter Weather Advisory	DLH	Crow Wing	6 hr
Mar 15, 9:01 AM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	DLH		25 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.