Alert archive / Minnesota / Frost Advisories in 2006
Frost Advisory 2, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this frost advisory at Sep 9, 2006, 1:54 PM CDT for Barron County, Polk County, Rusk County, Wisconsin; 7 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Sep 10, 2006, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 9, 2006, 1:54 PM CDT (18:54 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 10, 2006, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Sep 10, 2006, 3:06 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Benton County, MN, Chisago County, MN, Isanti County, MN, Kanabec County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Todd County, MN, Barron County, WI, Polk County, WI, Rusk County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 716 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 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 091854 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 154 PM CDT SAT SEP 9 2006 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 7 AM CDT SUNDAY... .A CANADIAN HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM SITUATED OVER THE WESTERN GREAT LAKES REGION THIS SATURDAY WILL PROVIDE THE IDEAL COMBINATION OF LIGHT WINDS...VERY DRY AIR AND CLEAR SKIES FOR A RAPID DROP IN TEMPERATURES OVERNIGHT. CONSEQUENTLY...WIDESPREAD FROST IS EXPECTED BY DAWN SUNDAY OVER PART OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. MNZ042>045-050-052-053-WIZ014>016-100300- /O.NEW.KMPX.FR.Y.0002.060910T0600Z-060910T1200Z/ TODD-MORRISON-MILLE LACS-KANABEC-BENTON-ISANTI-CHISAGO-POLK- BARRON-RUSK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LONG PRAIRIE...LITTLE FALLS... PRINCETON...MORA...FOLEY...CAMBRIDGE...CENTER CITY...AMERY... BALSAM LAKE...RICE LAKE...BARRON...LADYSMITH 154 PM CDT SAT SEP 9 2006 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 7 AM CDT SUNDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 7 AM CDT SUNDAY. WIDESPREAD FROST IS EXPECTED TONIGHT ACROSS PART OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND PART OF WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. LIGHT WINDS AND MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES WILL CREATE FAVORABLE CONDITIONS FOR TEMPERATURES TO FALL INTO THE LOWER TO MID 30S. SOME FAVORABLE LOCATIONS...ESPECIALLY SHELTERED LOW LYING AREAS...COULD SEE READINGS DIP JUST BELOW FREEZING. A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS73 KMPX 100305 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1005 PM CDT SAT SEP 9 2006 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 7 AM CDT SUNDAY... .HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE GREAT LAKES WILL PROVIDE MAINLY CLEAR SKIES AND LIGHT WINDS OVERNIGHT TO PORTIONS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. FROST IS EXPECTED TO OCCUR MAINLY ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM LONG PRAIRIE THROUGH CAMBRIDGE TO LADYSMITH...AS TEMPERATURES DROP INTO THE MIDDLE 30S BY SUNDAY MORNING. MNZ042>045-050-052-053-WIZ014>016-101115- /O.CON.KMPX.FR.Y.0002.060910T0600Z-060910T1200Z/ TODD-MORRISON-MILLE LACS-KANABEC-BENTON-ISANTI-CHISAGO-POLK- BARRON-RUSK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LONG PRAIRIE...LITTLE FALLS... PRINCETON...MORA...FOLEY...CAMBRIDGE...CENTER CITY...AMERY... BALSAM LAKE...RICE LAKE...BARRON...LADYSMITH 1005 PM CDT SAT SEP 9 2006 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 7 AM CDT SUNDAY... A FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 7 AM CDT SUNDAY. FROST IS EXPECTED TONIGHT ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN...MAINLY ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM LONG PRAIRIE THROUGH CAMBRIDGE TO LADYSMITH. LIGHT WINDS AND MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES WILL CREATE FAVORABLE CONDITIONS FOR TEMPERATURES TO FALL INTO THE MIDDLE 30S. A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. $$ RAH
000 WWUS73 KMPX 100806 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 306 AM CDT SUN SEP 10 2006 ...FROST ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... .THE FROST ADVISORY THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT THIS MORNING FOR LOCATIONS TO THE NORTH OF A LINE FROM LONG PRAIRIE...TO CAMBRIDGE...AND LADYSMITH HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THIS MORNINGS TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN THE LOW 40S...WHICH WILL SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE THE CHANCES OF WIDESPREAD FROST OCCURRING IN THESE AREAS. MNZ042>045-050-052-053-WIZ014>016-100915- /O.CAN.KMPX.FR.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-060910T1200Z/ TODD-MORRISON-MILLE LACS-KANABEC-BENTON-ISANTI-CHISAGO-POLK- BARRON-RUSK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LONG PRAIRIE...LITTLE FALLS... PRINCETON...MORA...FOLEY...CAMBRIDGE...CENTER CITY...AMERY... BALSAM LAKE...RICE LAKE...BARRON...LADYSMITH 306 AM CDT SUN SEP 10 2006 ...FROST ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS CANCELLED THE FROST ADVISORY. THIS MORNINGS TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN THE LOW 40S...WHICH WILL SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE THE CHANCES OF WIDESPREAD FROST OCCURRING IN THESE AREAS. $$ KAT
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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.