Alert archive / Minnesota / Wind Advisories in 2006
Wind Advisory 6, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this wind advisory at Dec 14, 2006, 2:54 AM CST for 6 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Dec 14, 2006, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 14, 2006, 2:54 AM CST (08:54 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 14, 2006, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Dec 14, 2006, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Brown County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Martin County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:51 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 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 1688 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 262 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 140854 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 254 AM CST THU DEC 14 2006 ...STRONG WEST WINDS TO AFFECT PARTS OF WESTERN MINNESOTA... .WEST WINDS WILL BE ON THE INCREASE IN SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA THIS MORNING. BY THE NOON HOUR WINDS SHOULD BE IN THE 30 MPH RANGE WITH HIGHER GUSTS...MAINLY IN THE HIGHER TERRAIN WEST OF THE MINNESOTA RIVER VALLEY. THESE GUSTY WEST WINDS SHOULD BEGIN TO SUBSIDE BY EARLY EVENING. SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THE ADVISORY ARE FAIRMONT...ST. JAMES...CANBY...DAWSON...AND VESTA. MNZ054-064-073-074-082-091-141700- /O.NEW.KMPX.WI.Y.0006.061214T1800Z-061215T0000Z/ LAC QUI PARLE-YELLOW MEDICINE-REDWOOD-BROWN-WATONWAN-MARTIN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MADISON...GRANITE FALLS... REDWOOD FALLS...NEW ULM...ST. JAMES...FAIRMONT 254 AM CST THU DEC 14 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. WEST WINDS WILL BE ON THE INCREASE IN SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA THIS MORNING. BY THE NOON HOUR WINDS SHOULD BE IN THE 30 MPH RANGE WITH HIGHER GUSTS...MAINLY IN THE HIGHER TERRAIN WEST OF THE MINNESOTA RIVER VALLEY. THESE GUSTY WEST WINDS SHOULD BEGIN TO SUBSIDE BY EARLY EVENING. 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. $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS73 KMPX 141752 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1152 AM CST THU DEC 14 2006 ...STRONG WEST WINDS TO AFFECT PARTS OF WESTERN MINNESOTA... .A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...MAINLY WEST OF THE MINNESOTA RIVER VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON. SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THE ADVISORY ARE FAIRMONT...ST. JAMES...CANBY... DAWSON...AND VESTA. WEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. WIND SPEEDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WILL BE COMMON WITH HIGHER GUSTS...MAINLY IN THE HIGHER TERRAIN WEST OF THE MINNESOTA RIVER VALLEY. THESE GUSTY WEST WINDS SHOULD BEGIN TO SUBSIDE BY EARLY EVENING. MNZ054-064-073-074-082-091-150000- /O.CON.KMPX.WI.Y.0006.061214T1800Z-061215T0000Z/ LAC QUI PARLE-YELLOW MEDICINE-REDWOOD-BROWN-WATONWAN-MARTIN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MADISON...GRANITE FALLS... REDWOOD FALLS...NEW ULM...ST. JAMES...FAIRMONT 1152 AM CST THU DEC 14 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...MAINLY WEST OF THE MINNESOTA RIVER VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON. SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THE ADVISORY ARE FAIRMONT...ST. JAMES...CANBY... DAWSON...AND VESTA. WEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. WIND SPEEDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WILL BE COMMON WITH HIGHER GUSTS...MAINLY IN THE HIGHER TERRAIN WEST OF THE MINNESOTA RIVER VALLEY. THESE GUSTY WEST WINDS SHOULD BEGIN TO SUBSIDE BY EARLY EVENING. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF AT LEAST 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$
000 WWUS73 KMPX 150251 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 840 PM CST THU DEC 14 2006 MNZ054-064-073-074-082-091-150255- /O.CON.KMPX.WI.Y.0006.061214T1800Z-061215T0000Z/ LAC QUI PARLE-YELLOW MEDICINE-REDWOOD-BROWN-WATONWAN-MARTIN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MADISON...GRANITE FALLS... REDWOOD FALLS...NEW ULM...ST. JAMES...FAIRMONT 840 PM CST THU DEC 14 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS IN THE 15 TO 20 MPH RANGE...WITH GUSTS UP TO 28 MPH...SHOULD BE EXPECTED PRIOR TO MIDNIGHT. $$
Nearby
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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.