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Freeze Watch 1, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this freeze watch at Oct 6, 2025, 1:56 PM CDT for 7 counties in Minnesota; Barron County, Polk County, Rusk County, Wisconsin. It took effect at Oct 7, 2025, 10:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 6, 2025, 1:56 PM CDT (18:56 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 7, 2025, 10:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 7, 2025, 1:51 AM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Benton County, MN, Chisago County, MN, Isanti County, MN, Kanabec County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Todd County, MN, Barron County, WI, Polk County, WI, Rusk County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:56 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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 419 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
- 1051 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Twin Cities, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze watch went out at Oct 6, 12:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 6, 12:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
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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.