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Winter Storm Warning 13, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this winter storm warning at Dec 27, 2025, 1:47 PM CST for 7 counties in Minnesota; 6 counties in Wisconsin. It took effect at Dec 28, 2025, 9:00 AM CST. It was in force for 18 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
- Dec 27, 2025, 1:47 PM CST (19:47 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 28, 2025, 9:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Dec 29, 2025, 3:00 AM CST
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
Counties Aitkin County, MN, Carlton County, MN, Cook County, MN, Crow Wing County, MN, Lake County, MN, Pine County, MN, Saint Louis County, MN, Bayfield County, WI, Burnett County, WI, Douglas County, WI, Price County, WI, Sawyer County, WI, Washburn County, WI
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 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
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, 10:18 AM CST | Wind Advisory | DLH | Lake, Saint Louis | 46 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 |
Nearby
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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.