Alert archive / North Dakota / Wind Advisories in 2007
Wind Advisory 18, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this wind advisory at Oct 31, 2007, 4:02 AM CDT for 14 counties in North Dakota; 4 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Oct 31, 2007, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 31, 2007, 4:02 AM CDT (09:02 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 31, 2007, 10:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 31, 2007, 3:29 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
Counties Clay County, MN, Grant County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Barnes County, ND, Benson County, ND, Cass County, ND, Cavalier County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Griggs County, ND, Nelson County, ND, Ramsey County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Steele County, ND, Towner County, ND, Walsh County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:59 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
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 233 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
- 7090 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 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 KFGF 310902 NPWFGF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 402 AM CDT WED OCT 31 2007 ...STRONG WINDS EXPECTED FROM LATE MORNING INTO EARLY EVENING... .A DEEP LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVING ACROSS ONTARIO WILL CREATE STRONG AND GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS...MAINLY ALONG AND WEST OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY INTO WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 40 MPH ARE FORECAST IN THE ADVISORY AREA. MNZ003-029>031-040-NDZ006-007-014-015-024-026-028-029-038-039-049- 052>054-010000- /O.NEW.KFGF.WI.Y.0018.071031T1500Z-071101T0000Z/ CLAY-WILKIN-WEST OTTER TAIL-EAST OTTER TAIL-GRANT-TOWNER-CAVALIER- BENSON-RAMSEY-EDDY-NELSON-GRIGGS-STEELE-BARNES-CASS-RANSOM- SARGENT-RICHLAND-WESTERN WALSH COUNTY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MOORHEAD...BRECKENRIDGE... FERGUS FALLS...NEW YORK MILLS...ELBOW LAKE...CANDO...LANGDON... MADDOCK...LEEDS...DEVILS LAKE...NEW ROCKFORD...LAKOTA... COOPERSTOWN...FINLEY...VALLEY CITY...FARGO...LISBON...GWINNER... WAHPETON...ADAMS 402 AM CDT WED OCT 31 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. LOW PRESSURE OVER ONTARIO WILL MOVE EAST AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS QUICKLY INTO THE REGION. NORTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 25 TO 35 MPH BY LATE MORNING WITH FREQUENT GUSTS TO AROUND 40 MPH. THESE GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON...AND RAPIDLY DIMINISH AROUND SUNSET. 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. $$ EWENS
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS73 KFGF 311714 NPWFGF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 1214 PM CDT WED OCT 31 2007 ...STRONG WINDS EXPECTED THROUGH EARLY EVENING... .A DEEP LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVING THROUGH ONTARIO CONTINUES TO CREATE STRONG AND GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS...MAINLY ALONG AND WEST OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY INTO WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 40 MPH WILL AFFECT THE ADVISORY AREA THROUGH EARLY EVENING. MNZ003-029>031-040-NDZ006-007-014-015-024-026-028-029-038-039-049- 052>054-010000- /O.CON.KFGF.WI.Y.0018.000000T0000Z-071101T0000Z/ CLAY-WILKIN-WEST OTTER TAIL-EAST OTTER TAIL-GRANT-TOWNER-CAVALIER- BENSON-RAMSEY-EDDY-NELSON-GRIGGS-STEELE-BARNES-CASS-RANSOM- SARGENT-RICHLAND-WESTERN WALSH COUNTY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MOORHEAD...BRECKENRIDGE... FERGUS FALLS...NEW YORK MILLS...ELBOW LAKE...CANDO...LANGDON... MADDOCK...LEEDS...DEVILS LAKE...NEW ROCKFORD...LAKOTA... COOPERSTOWN...FINLEY...VALLEY CITY...FARGO...LISBON...GWINNER... WAHPETON...ADAMS 1214 PM CDT WED OCT 31 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. LOW PRESSURE OVER ONTARIO WILL MOVE EAST AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS QUICKLY INTO THE REGION. NORTHWEST WINDS BETWEEN 25 AND 35 MPH WILL GUST FREQUENTLY TO AROUND 40 MPH. THESE GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THIS EVENING...BUT RAPIDLY DIMINISH AROUND SUNSET. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 MPH OR FREQUENT GUSTS TO 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$
000 WWUS73 KFGF 312029 NPWFGF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 329 PM CDT WED OCT 31 2007 ...WINDS TO DIMINISH BY SUNSET... .LOW PRESSURE OVER CENTRAL ONTARIO WILL CONTINUE MOVING TO THE EAST AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS OVERHEAD TONIGHT. WINDS WILL DIMINISH RAPIDLY AROUND SUNSET AND BECOME LIGHT OVERNIGHT. AS A RESULT...THE WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED. MNZ003-029>031-040-NDZ006-007-014-015-024-026-028-029-038-039-049- 052>054-312130- /O.CAN.KFGF.WI.Y.0018.000000T0000Z-071101T0000Z/ CLAY-WILKIN-WEST OTTER TAIL-EAST OTTER TAIL-GRANT-TOWNER-CAVALIER- BENSON-RAMSEY-EDDY-NELSON-GRIGGS-STEELE-BARNES-CASS-RANSOM- SARGENT-RICHLAND-WESTERN WALSH COUNTY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MOORHEAD...BRECKENRIDGE... FERGUS FALLS...NEW YORK MILLS...ELBOW LAKE...CANDO...LANGDON... MADDOCK...LEEDS...DEVILS LAKE...NEW ROCKFORD...LAKOTA... COOPERSTOWN...FINLEY...VALLEY CITY...FARGO...LISBON...GWINNER... WAHPETON...ADAMS 329 PM CDT WED OCT 31 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WINDS WILL DIMINISH AROUND SUNSET AND BECOME LIGHT OVERNIGHT. $$ WJB
Nearby
Wind Advisories in North Dakota, 2007Wind Advisories in Minnesota, 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.