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Blizzard Warning 3, NWS Duluth, MN

March 14, 2026Pine County, Minnesota; 8 counties in Wisconsin

NWS Duluth, MN issued this blizzard warning at Mar 14, 2026, 1:50 PM CDT for Pine County, Minnesota; 8 counties in Wisconsin. It took effect at Mar 15, 2026, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 25 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: Mar 14, 2026, 1:50 PM CDT (18:50 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 15, 2026, 1:00 AM CDT
Expired: Mar 16, 2026, 2:25 AM CDT
In force: 25 hr
Issued by: NWS Duluth, MN

Counties Pine County, MN, Ashland County, WI, Bayfield County, WI, Burnett County, WI, Douglas County, WI, Iron County, WI, Price County, WI, Sawyer County, WI, Washburn County, WI

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 225 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: 1855 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 99 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 180 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this blizzard warning 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 blizzard warning went out at Mar 14, 12:54 PM CDT, 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 12:54 PM CDT, 56 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
Mar 14, 1:23 AM CDT	Winter Weather Advisory	DLH	Aitkin, Cass, Crow Wing, Lake, Saint Louis	37 hr
Mar 14, 2:29 AM CDT	Gale Warning	DLH		62 hr
Mar 14, 10:28 AM CDT	Storm Watch	DLH		4 hr
Mar 14, 2:39 PM CDT	Storm Warning	DLH		45 hr
Mar 14, 5:06 PM CDT	Heavy Freezing Spray Warning	DLH		47 hr
Mar 14, 5:13 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	DLH	Cook, Lake, Saint Louis	45 hr

Nearby

Blizzard Warnings in Wisconsin, 2026 Blizzard Warnings in Minnesota, 2026 Every blizzard warning in 2026

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.