Alert archive / Minnesota / Wind Advisories in 2005
Wind Advisory 7, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this wind advisory at Nov 16, 2005, 7:49 AM CST for 25 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 16, 2005, 7:49 AM CST (13:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 16, 2005, 12:00 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
All 25 counties
Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Martin County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Pope County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Steele County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Todd County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 879 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS73 KMPX 161349 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 749 AM CST WED NOV 16 2005 ...STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE THIS MORNING... .STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS SUSTAINED AT SPEEDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THIS MORNING IN THE WAKE OF A POTENT LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM. MNZ041-042-047>049-054>058-064>067-073>076-082>085-091>093-161800- /O.NEW.KMPX.WI.Y.0007.051116T1349Z-051116T1800Z/ DOUGLAS-TODD-STEVENS-POPE-STEARNS-LAC QUI PARLE-SWIFT-CHIPPEWA- KANDIYOHI-MEEKER-YELLOW MEDICINE-RENVILLE-MCLEOD-SIBLEY-REDWOOD- BROWN-NICOLLET-LE SUEUR-WATONWAN-BLUE EARTH-WASECA-STEELE-MARTIN- FARIBAULT-FREEBORN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALEXANDRIA...LONG PRAIRIE...MORRIS... GLENWOOD...ST. CLOUD...MADISON...BENSON...MONTEVIDEO...WILLMAR... LITCHFIELD...GRANITE FALLS...OLIVIA...HUTCHINSON...GAYLORD... REDWOOD FALLS...NEW ULM...ST. PETER...LE SUEUR...ST. JAMES... MANKATO...WASECA...OWATONNA...FAIRMONT...BLUE EARTH...ALBERT LEA 749 AM CST WED NOV 16 2005 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY. NORTHWEST WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED THIS MORNING. THE WINDS WILL GRADUALLY DECREASE BY EARLY AFTERNOON AS THE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM LIFTS NORTHEAST INTO CANADA. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF AT LEAST 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$ SCHMIT
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS73 KMPX 161742 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1142 AM CST WED NOV 16 2005 ...THE WIND ADVISORY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT NOON CST TODAY... .NORTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO DECREASE ACROSS WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA AS THE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM CONTINUES TO LIFT NORTHEAST INTO CANADA. MNZ041-042-047>049-054>058-064>067-073>076-082>085-091>093-161845- /O.EXP.KMPX.WI.Y.0007.000000T0000Z-051116T1800Z/ DOUGLAS-TODD-STEVENS-POPE-STEARNS-LAC QUI PARLE-SWIFT-CHIPPEWA- KANDIYOHI-MEEKER-YELLOW MEDICINE-RENVILLE-MCLEOD-SIBLEY-REDWOOD- BROWN-NICOLLET-LE SUEUR-WATONWAN-BLUE EARTH-WASECA-STEELE-MARTIN- FARIBAULT-FREEBORN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALEXANDRIA...LONG PRAIRIE...MORRIS... GLENWOOD...ST. CLOUD...MADISON...BENSON...MONTEVIDEO...WILLMAR... LITCHFIELD...GRANITE FALLS...OLIVIA...HUTCHINSON...GAYLORD... REDWOOD FALLS...NEW ULM...ST. PETER...LE SUEUR...ST. JAMES... MANKATO...WASECA...OWATONNA...FAIRMONT...BLUE EARTH...ALBERT LEA 1142 AM CST WED NOV 16 2005 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT NOON CST TODAY... THE WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT NOON CST TODAY. BLUSTERY WINDS AT 20 TO 30 MPH WILL CONTINUE DECREASING THIS AFTERNOON...AND WILL DECREASE TO SPEEDS AROUND 10 MPH BY THIS EVENING. $$ SCHMIT
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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.