Alert archive / North Dakota / Wind Advisories in 2007
Wind Advisory 1, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this wind advisory at Jan 8, 2007, 4:19 AM CST for 4 counties in North Dakota. It took effect at Jan 8, 2007, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 8, 2007, 4:19 AM CST (10:19 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 8, 2007, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Jan 8, 2007, 6:02 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
Counties Barnes County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:24 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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 1424 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 84 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 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 KFGF 081019 NPWFGF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 419 AM CST MON JAN 8 2007 .STRONG WINDS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AS A LOW PRESSURE CENTER PASSES BY JUST TO THE NORTHEAST AND INTENSE HIGH PRESSURE MOVES INTO MONTANA. THE WINDS WILL GRADUALLY TAPER OFF BY MIDNIGHT AS THE GRADIENT OF PRESSURE BETWEEN THEM BEGINS TO RELAX. NDZ038-049-052-053-090600- /O.NEW.KFGF.WI.Y.0001.070108T1800Z-070109T0600Z/ BARNES-RANSOM-SARGENT-RICHLAND- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...VALLEY CITY...LISBON...GWINNER... WAHPETON 419 AM CST MON JAN 8 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT. STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS WITH LIKELY GUSTS TO 45 MPH WILL DEVELOP OVER EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON AND PERSIST INTO THE EVENING. UP TO AN INCH OF SNOW IS ALSO POSSIBLE ALONG WITH THE WIND WHICH WOULD CAUSE AREAS OF BLOWING SNOW AND REDUCED VISIBILITY. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 MPH OR FREQUENT GUSTS TO 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$ GV
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS73 KFGF 082117 NPWFGF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 317 PM CST MON JAN 8 2007 .STRONG WINDS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA AS AN INTENSE HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVES INTO MONTANA. THE WINDS WILL GRADUALLY TAPER OFF BY MIDNIGHT AS THE HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVES INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS NDZ038-049-052-053-090600- /O.CON.KFGF.WI.Y.0001.000000T0000Z-070109T0600Z/ BARNES-RANSOM-SARGENT-RICHLAND- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...VALLEY CITY...LISBON...GWINNER... WAHPETON 317 PM CST MON JAN 8 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT. STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS GUSTING TO 40 MPH WILL DEVELOP OVER EXTREME SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA THIS AFTERNOON AND WILL PERSIST INTO THE EVENING. UP TO AN INCH OF NEW SNOW IS ALSO POSSIBLE. THIS NEW SNOWFALL COMBINED WITH THE STRONG WINDS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE AREAS OF BLOWING SNOW WHICH WILL SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE VISIBILITIES OVER THE AREA. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 MPH OR FREQUENT GUSTS TO 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$ KENNEDY
000 WWUS73 KFGF 090002 NPWFGF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 602 PM CST MON JAN 8 2007 NDZ038-049-052-053-090115- /O.CAN.KFGF.WI.Y.0001.000000T0000Z-070109T0600Z/ BARNES-RANSOM-SARGENT-RICHLAND- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...VALLEY CITY...LISBON...GWINNER... WAHPETON 602 PM CST MON JAN 8 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL REMAIN WEST OF THE AREA FROM MINOT TO BISMARCK THEN INTO CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA. $$ DTR
Nearby
Wind Advisories in North Dakota, 2007Every wind advisory in 2007
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.