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Blowing Snow Advisory 1, NWS Twin Cities, MN

January 23, 20065 counties in Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this blowing snow advisory at Jan 23, 2006, 3:03 PM CST for 5 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Jan 24, 2006, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 23, 2006, 3:03 PM CST (21:03 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 24, 2006, 12:00 AM CST
Expired
Jan 24, 2006, 3:43 AM CST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN

Counties Douglas County, MN, Pope County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Todd County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:02 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

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 165 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, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2006-01-23Temperature 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, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2006-01-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 209 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1240 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
209 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
274 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 23, 3:10 PM CSTWind AdvisoryMPXAnoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 36 more28 hr

Nearby

Blowing Snow Advisories in Minnesota, 2006Every blowing snow advisory in 2006

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.