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Freezing Rain Advisory 5, NWS Grand Forks, ND

December 29, 200518 counties in Minnesota; 17 counties in North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this freezing rain advisory at Dec 29, 2005, 8:37 AM CST for 18 counties in Minnesota; 17 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 29, 2005, 8:37 AM CST (14:37 UTC)
Expired: Dec 29, 2005, 11:59 AM CST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND

All 35 counties

Becker County, MN, Beltrami County, MN, Clay County, MN, Clearwater County, MN, Grant County, MN, Hubbard County, MN, Kittson County, MN, Lake of the Woods County, MN, Mahnomen County, MN, Marshall County, MN, Norman County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pennington County, MN, Polk County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Roseau County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Barnes County, ND, Benson County, ND, Cass County, ND, Cavalier County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Grand Forks County, ND, Griggs County, ND, Nelson County, ND, Pembina County, ND, Ramsey County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Steele County, ND, Towner County, ND, Traill County, ND, Walsh County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 317 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: 1358 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 129 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 freezing rain advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freezing rain advisory went out at Dec 29, 3:55 AM CST, 4 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 29, 3:55 AM CST, 4 hours 42 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 29, 6:44 AM CST, 1 hour 53 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND
644 AM CST THU DEC 29 2005

MNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024-
026>030-038-039-049-052>054-301245-
WEST POLK-NORMAN-CLAY-KITTSON-ROSEAU-LAKE OF THE WOODS-
WEST MARSHALL-EAST MARSHALL-NORTH BELTRAMI-PENNINGTON-RED LAKE-
EAST POLK-NORTH CLEARWATER-SOUTH BELTRAMI-MAHNOMEN-
SOUTH CLEARWATER-HUBBARD-WEST BECKER-EAST BECKER-WILKIN-
WEST OTTER TAIL-EAST OTTER TAIL-WADENA-GRANT-TOWNER-CAVALIER-
PEMBINA-BENSON-RAMSEY-EASTERN WALSH COUNTY-EDDY-NELSON-
GRAND FORKS-GRIGGS-STEELE-TRAILL-BARNES-CASS-RANSOM-SARGENT-
RICHLAND-WESTERN WALSH COUNTY-
644 AM CST THU DEC 29 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN NORTH
DAKOTA...WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT
POCKETS OF DENSE FOG THIS MORNING WILL RESULT IN VISIBILITIES
BELOW ONE QUARTER OF A MILE AT TIMES. A SNOW ADVISORY HAS BEEN
ISSUED FOR AREAS ALONG AND SOUTH OF A VALLEY CITY TO FARGO TO
PARK RAPIDS LINE FOR TONIGHT AND FRIDAY. SNOWFALL AMOUNTS IN
THOSE LOCATIONS SHOULD REACH 2 TO 5 INCHES BEFORE THE SNOW TAPERS
OFF LATE FRIDAY AFTERNOON.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY
UNSETTLED WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO PERSIST THROUGH THE
PERIOD WITH SNOW CHANCES FOR THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND AND AGAIN ON
TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. AT THE CURRENT TIME NONE OF SNOW
CHANCES APPEAR SIGNIFICANT IN NATURE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TONIGHT AND FRIDAY FOR SNOWFALL
AMOUNT REPORTS.

BERG

The office that day

Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 29, 4:07 AM CST	Snow Advisory	FGF	Becker, Clay, Grant, Hubbard, Otter Tail, Wadena and 1 more	12 hr
Dec 29, 11:48 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	FGF	Becker, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard, Mahnomen and 5 more	24 hr
Dec 29, 3:50 PM CST	Winter Storm Warning	FGF	Becker, Clay, Grant, Otter Tail, Wadena, Wilkin	20 hr
Dec 28, 6:30 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	FGF	Barnes, Benson, Cavalier, Eddy, Griggs, Nelson and 6 more	10 hr

Nearby

Freezing Rain Advisories in Minnesota, 2005 Freezing Rain Advisories in North Dakota, 2005 Every freezing rain advisory in 2005

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.