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Wind Advisory 18, NWS Duluth, MN

December 27, 2025Lake County, Saint Louis County, Minnesota

NWS Duluth, MN issued this wind advisory at Dec 27, 2025, 10:18 AM CST for Lake County, Saint Louis County, Minnesota. It took effect at Dec 28, 2025, 9:00 PM CST. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 27, 2025, 10:18 AM CST (16:18 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 28, 2025, 9:00 PM CST
Expired: Dec 29, 2025, 8:00 AM CST
In force: 11 hr
Issued by: NWS Duluth, MN

Counties Lake County, MN, Saint Louis County, MN

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:20 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

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 327 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 574 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 287 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 337 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 26, 6:48 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	DLH	Cass, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake, Saint Louis	17 hr
Dec 26, 8:51 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	DLH	Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Lake and 2 more	33 hr
Dec 27, 9:18 AM CST	Storm Watch	DLH		5 hr
Dec 27, 10:18 AM CST	High Wind Warning	DLH	Cook	46 hr
Dec 27, 1:47 PM CST	Winter Storm Warning	DLH	Aitkin, Carlton, Cook, Crow Wing, Lake, Pine and 1 more	37 hr
Dec 27, 1:47 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	DLH	Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca and 3 more	37 hr
Dec 27, 2:38 PM CST	Gale Warning	DLH		46 hr
Dec 27, 2:38 PM CST	Storm Warning	DLH		44 hr
Dec 27, 2:38 PM CST	Heavy Freezing Spray Warning	DLH		55 hr
Dec 27, 1:47 PM CST	Blizzard Warning	DLH	Ashland, Iron	42 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.