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Wind Advisory 12, NWS Duluth, MN

April 29, 2025Cook County, Lake County, Saint Louis County, Minnesota

NWS Duluth, MN issued this wind advisory at Apr 29, 2025, 5:29 AM CDT for Cook County, Lake County, Saint Louis County, Minnesota. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 29, 2025, 5:29 AM CDT (10:29 UTC)
Expired: Apr 29, 2025, 10:00 AM CDT
In force: 5 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 10:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 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: 471 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -119 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1064 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 77 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 213 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.0

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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 Apr 28, 3:45 PM CDT, 13 hours 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 3:45 PM CDT, 13 hours 44 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 28, 12:22 PM CDT, 17 hours 7 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
Apr 28, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Aitkin, Crow Wing	45 min
Apr 28, 7:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DLH	Aitkin, Crow Wing	48 min
Apr 28, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Aitkin, Carlton, Saint Louis	46 min
Apr 29, 3:46 AM CDT	Gale Warning	DLH		6 hr
Apr 28, 8:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Price, Sawyer	49 min

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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.