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High Wind Warning 1, NWS Duluth, MN

February 26, 2026Cook County, Minnesota

NWS Duluth, MN issued this high wind warning at Feb 26, 2026, 11:02 AM CST for Cook County, Minnesota. It took effect at Feb 27, 2026, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 12 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
Feb 26, 2026, 11:02 AM CST (17:02 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 27, 2026, 12:00 PM CST
Expired
Feb 28, 2026, 12:00 AM CST
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Duluth, MN

County Cook County, MN

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:03 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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 221 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 2026-02-26Temperature 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 2026-02-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 232 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
645 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
232 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
365 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
Feb 26, 10:14 AM CSTGale WarningDLH38 hr
Feb 26, 10:14 AM CSTStorm WarningDLH38 hr
Feb 26, 10:14 AM CSTHeavy Freezing Spray WarningDLH42 hr
Feb 26, 11:02 AM CSTWind AdvisoryDLHAitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca and 4 more37 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.