Alert archive / Minnesota / Wind Advisories in 2007
Wind Advisory 4, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this wind advisory at Mar 15, 2007, 3:44 PM CDT for 6 counties in Minnesota; Cass County, Richland County, North Dakota. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 15, 2007, 3:44 PM CDT (20:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 15, 2007, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
Counties Becker County, MN, Clay County, MN, Grant County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Cass County, ND, Richland County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:43 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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 250 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
- 822 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 80 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 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 152044 NPWFGF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 344 PM CDT THU MAR 15 2007 ...STRONG WINDS INTO EARLY EVENING... .A STRONG LOW PRESSURE CENTER ALOFT WILL CAUSE GUSTY WINDS INTO EARLY EVENING ACROSS THE SOUTHERN RED RIVER VALLEY AND PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. MNZ003-027>032-040-NDZ039-053-160000- /O.NEW.KFGF.WI.Y.0004.070315T2044Z-070316T0000Z/ CLAY-WEST BECKER-EAST BECKER-WILKIN-WEST OTTER TAIL- EAST OTTER TAIL-WADENA-GRANT-CASS-RICHLAND- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MOORHEAD...DETROIT LAKES...WOLF LAKE... BRECKENRIDGE...FERGUS FALLS...NEW YORK MILLS...WADENA... ELBOW LAKE...FARGO...WAHPETON 344 PM CDT THU MAR 15 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. SUSTAINED WINDS OF AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR...WITH GUSTS TO OVER 40 MILES AN HOUR...ARE EXPECTED TO PERSIST INTO EARLY EVENING. WINDS WILL BEGIN TO DECREASE SIGNIFICANTLY TOWARD 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. $$ BRAMER
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS73 KFGF 152355 NPWFGF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 655 PM CDT THU MAR 15 2007 ...WINDS ARE SLOWLY SUBSIDING... .WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO SLOWLY SUBSIDE THROUGH THIS EVENING. MNZ003-027>032-040-NDZ039-053-160100- /O.EXP.KFGF.WI.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-070316T0000Z/ CLAY-WEST BECKER-EAST BECKER-WILKIN-WEST OTTER TAIL- EAST OTTER TAIL-WADENA-GRANT-CASS-RICHLAND- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MOORHEAD...DETROIT LAKES...WOLF LAKE... BRECKENRIDGE...FERGUS FALLS...NEW YORK MILLS...WADENA... ELBOW LAKE...FARGO...WAHPETON 655 PM CDT THU MAR 15 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO SUBSIDE THIS EVENING...AND BECOME LIGHT LATER TONIGHT. THEREFORE...THE WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM. SOME WIND GUSTS TO 30 MPH WILL PERSIST THROUGH 8 PM...BUT WINDS WILL QUICKLY DIMINISH AFTER SUNSET. $$ DK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 2:52 AM CDT | Snow Advisory | FGF | Becker, Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard, Kittson, Mahnomen and 5 more | 13 hr |
| Mar 15, 6:09 AM CDT | Heavy Snow Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Clearwater, Marshall, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake | 10 hr |
Nearby
Wind Advisories in Minnesota, 2007Wind 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.