Drought, Price
- When
- January 1, 12:00 AM CST to January 31, 11:59 PM CST
- Where
- Price forecast zone
- Reported by
- Other Federal Agency
- Coordinates
- 45.680, -90.361 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Drought in Wisconsin, January 1 to 31, 2009
Severe (D2) drought conditions continued across southeastern Sawyer County and Price County through the month of January, due to a lack of significant precipitation.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS DLH wrote it up.
Severe (D2) drought conditions continued across southeastern Sawyer County and Price County through the month of January, due to a lack of significant precipitation.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Dec 31, 8:27 PM CST, 3 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 31, 8:27 PM CST, 3 hours 33 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
827 PM CST WED DEC 31 2008
.DISCUSSION...
NO CHANGES TO THE ONGOING FORECAST. SNOW BREAKING OUT ACROSS WRN
HALF OF ND. WINDS INCREASING ALSO WITH GUSTS OVR 20 KTS IN WRN MN.
ETA OF SNOW BETWEEN 2 AND 3 AM INTO WRN AREAS OF KOOCH AND ITASCA
COUNTIES...THEN SPREADING EWRD. MID CLOUDS STREAMING OVR THE
REGION ATTM IN STRONG WAA. TEMPS ARE PRECARIOUSLY CLOSE TO FCST
MINS...BUT WAA AND CLOUD COVER SHOULD KEEP THEM FROM FALLING MUCH
MORE.
&&
.AVIATION...
&&
POINT TEMPS/POPS...
DLH -3 17 -2 8 / 50 50 40 20
INL -5 13 -9 1 / 50 80 70 10
BRD 2 20 -2 9 / 50 30 20 10
HYR -5 19 2 10 / 40 60 30 10
ASX -3 18 3 11 / 40 70 50 50
&&
.DLH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
MN...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FROM 6 AM THURSDAY TO MIDNIGHT CST
THURSDAY NIGHT FOR CENTRAL ST. LOUIS-KOOCHICHING-NORTHERN
COOK/NORTHERN LAKE-NORTHERN ITASCA-NORTHERN ST. LOUIS-
SOUTHERN COOK/LAKESHORE-SOUTHERN ITASCA-SOUTHERN
LAKE/LAKESHORE.
WI...NONE.
LS...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FROM 4 AM THURSDAY TO 4 AM CST FRIDAY FOR
LSZ140-LSZ141-LSZ142-LSZ143.
CLCHazardous weather outlook, Dec 31, 3:43 PM CST, 8 hours 17 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 343 PM CST WED DEC 31 2008 MNZ010>012-018>021-025-026-033>038-WIZ001>004-006>009-011130- KOOCHICHING-NORTHERN ST. LOUIS-NORTHERN COOK/NORTHERN LAKE- NORTHERN ITASCA-CENTRAL ST. LOUIS-SOUTHERN LAKE/LAKESHORE- SOUTHERN COOK/LAKESHORE-NORTHERN CASS-SOUTHERN ITASCA- SOUTHERN CASS-CROW WING-NORTHERN AITKIN-SOUTHERN AITKIN- CARLTON/SOUTHERN ST. LOUIS-PINE-DOUGLAS-BAYFIELD-ASHLAND-IRON- BURNETT-WASHBURN-SAWYER-PRICE- 343 PM CST WED DEC 31 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT LIGHT SNOW WILL BEGIN ACROSS ITASCA AND KOOCHICHING COUNTIES AFTER 300 AM THURSDAY MORNING AND SPREAD EAST. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY ACCUMULATING SNOW WILL BEGIN ACROSS NORTHEAST MINNESOTA AND SPREAD RAPIDLY EAST EARLY THURSDAY. SNOWFALLS WILL RANGE FROM 3 TO 6 INCHES ACROSS THE RAINY RIVER VALLEY...IRON RANGE AND ARROWHEAD WITH MUCH LESSER AMOUNTS TO THE SOUTH AND ACROSS NORTHWEST WISCONSIN BY MIDNIGHT THURSDAY NIGHT. A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST MINNESOTA FOR FRIDAY. SEE THE LATEST WINTER WEATHER STATEMENTS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DULUTH. SNOW BEGIN EARLY SATURDAY ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA AND CONTINUE THROUGH SUNDAY. SUBSTANTIAL ACCUMULATIONS ARE POSSIBLE. A BITTER ARCTIC FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA LATE SUNDAY OR SUNDAY EVENING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT. LSZ121-140>148-011130- BAYFIELD TO OAK POINT WI-GRAND PORTAGE TO GRAND MARAIS MN- GRAND MARAIS TO TACONITE HARBOR MN- TACONITE HARBOR TO SILVER BAY HARBOR MN- SILVER BAY HARBOR TO TWO HARBORS MN-TWO HARBORS TO DULUTH MN- DULUTH MN TO PORT WING WI-PORT WING TO SAND ISLAND WI- SAND ISLAND TO BAYFIELD WI-OAK POINT TO SAXON HARBOR WI- 343 PM CST WED DEC 31 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE NEARSHORE WATERS OF WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ONSHORE WINDS AND BUILDING WAVES WILL CREATE HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS FOR SMALL CRAFT ALONG THE MINNESOTA NORTH SHORE OF LAKE SUPERIOR LATE TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY ONSHORE WINDS AND ROUGH WAVES WILL CREATE HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS FOR SMALL CRAFT ALONG THE MINNESOTA NORTH SHORE OF LAKE SUPERIOR THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT. STEWART MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING WEB ADDRESS: HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/DULUTH (ALL LOWER CASE)
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
Drought, Sawyer
- When
- January 1, 12:00 AM CST to 11:59 PM CST
- Where
- Sawyer forecast zone
- Reported by
- Official NWS Observations
- Coordinates
- 45.880, -91.145 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
What these are
- Drought
- A drought reaching severe (D2) or worse on the US Drought Monitor, or with notable impacts.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Debris Flows and Flooding in Oregon, January 1 to 5, 2009
- Extreme Cold in New Mexico, January 1, 2009
- Drought in Texas, January 1 to 31, 2009
- High Wind in Oregon, January 1, 2009
- Flooding in Indiana, January 1 to 8, 2009
- High Wind in Colorado, January 1, 2009
- Cold in New York, January 1, 2009
- Drought in Wisconsin, January 1 to 31, 2009
- Drought in Texas, January 1 to 31, 2009
- Drought in California, January 1 to 31, 2009
- Extreme Cold in Alaska, January 1 to 12, 2009
- Drought in Texas, January 1 to 31, 2009
More
Every storm in Wisconsin in 2009Every state in 2009This day in weather historyWarnings in Wisconsin, January 2009
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 150819, 152544.