Alert archive / Iowa / Wind Advisories in 2007
Wind Advisory 4, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this wind advisory at May 22, 2007, 11:02 AM CDT for 4 counties in Iowa; 4 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 2007, 11:02 AM CDT (16:02 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2007, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
Counties Chickasaw County, IA, Floyd County, IA, Howard County, IA, Mitchell County, IA, Dodge County, MN, Fillmore County, MN, Mower County, MN, Olmsted County, MN
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -118 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1311 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 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 KARX 221602 NPWARX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 1102 AM CDT TUE MAY 22 2007 ...STRONG WINDS TODAY... .STRONG SOUTH WINDS AT 20 TO 30 MPH GUSTING TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED IN PARTS OF SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA AND NORTHEAST IOWA INTO THIS AFTERNOON. IAZ008-009-018-019-MNZ086-087-094-095-222300- /O.NEW.KARX.WI.Y.0004.070522T1602Z-070522T2300Z/ MITCHELL-HOWARD-FLOYD-CHICKASAW-DODGE-OLMSTED-MOWER-FILLMORE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHARLES CITY...ROCHESTER...AUSTIN 1102 AM CDT TUE MAY 22 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. STRONG SOUTH WINDS AT 20 TO 30 MPH GUSTING TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED INTO THIS AFTERNOON. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF AT LEAST 30 MPH... OR GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 45 MPH...ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$ BROOKS
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS73 KARX 221921 NPWARX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 221 PM CDT TUE MAY 22 2007 ...STRONG WINDS TODAY... .STRONG SOUTH WINDS AT 20 TO 30 MPH GUSTING TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED IN PARTS OF SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA AND NORTHEAST IOWA THIS AFTERNOON. IAZ008-009-018-019-MNZ086-087-094-095-222300- /O.CON.KARX.WI.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-070522T2300Z/ MITCHELL-HOWARD-FLOYD-CHICKASAW-DODGE-OLMSTED-MOWER-FILLMORE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHARLES CITY...ROCHESTER...AUSTIN 221 PM CDT TUE MAY 22 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. STRONG SOUTH WINDS AT 20 TO 30 MPH GUSTING TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF AT LEAST 30 MPH... OR GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 45 MPH...ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$ BROOKS
000 WWUS73 KARX 222303 NPWARX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 603 PM CDT TUE MAY 22 2007 ...WINDS DIMINISHING ACROSS THE AREA... .WINDS WERE DIMINISHING ACROSS THE AREA AND THE WIND ADVISORY WILL NOT BE RE-ISSUED. IAZ008-009-018-019-MNZ086-087-094-095-230015- /O.EXP.KARX.WI.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-070522T2300Z/ MITCHELL-HOWARD-FLOYD-CHICKASAW-DODGE-OLMSTED-MOWER-FILLMORE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHARLES CITY...ROCHESTER...AUSTIN 603 PM CDT TUE MAY 22 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA WITH SOUTH WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH EXPECTED THE REMAINDER OF THE EVENING. THUS THE WIND ADVISORY IS BEING ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$ RABERDING
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.