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Fire Weather Watch 4, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this fire weather watch at Apr 21, 2026, 12:12 PM CDT for 15 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Apr 22, 2026, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 21, 2026, 12:12 PM CDT (17:12 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 22, 2026, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 22, 2026, 1:54 AM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Benton County, MN, Carver County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Rice County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Steele County, MN, Todd County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Wright County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 35 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
- 2549 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 12:12 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MPX | Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Douglas and 28 more | 32 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.