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Wind Advisory 16, NWS Duluth, MN

December 15, 20259 counties in Minnesota

NWS Duluth, MN issued this wind advisory at Dec 15, 2025, 12:59 PM CST for 9 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Dec 16, 2025, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 15, 2025, 12:59 PM CST (18:59 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 16, 2025, 12:00 PM CST
Expired
Dec 17, 2025, 3:00 AM CST
In force
15 hr
Issued by
NWS Duluth, MN

Counties Aitkin County, MN, Carlton County, MN, Cass County, MN, Cook County, MN, Crow Wing County, MN, Itasca County, MN, Koochiching County, MN, Lake County, MN, Saint Louis County, MN

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:01 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

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 149 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, International Fa, MN at 12:00Z on 2025-12-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, International Fa, MN at 12:00Z on 2025-12-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 135 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
688 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
94 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
135 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
164 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 15, 3:37 AM CSTGale WatchDLH9 hr
Dec 15, 3:37 AM CSTGale WarningDLH2 hr
Dec 15, 3:37 AM CSTSmall Craft AdvisoryDLH6 hr
Dec 15, 1:06 PM CSTGale WarningDLH39 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.