Alert archive / North Dakota / Wind Advisories in 2007
Wind Advisory 5, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this wind advisory at Mar 20, 2007, 3:58 AM CDT for 17 counties in North Dakota; 6 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Mar 20, 2007, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 20, 2007, 3:58 AM CDT (08:58 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 20, 2007, 10:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 20, 2007, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
All 23 counties
Clay County, MN, Kittson County, MN, Marshall County, MN, Norman County, MN, Polk County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Barnes County, ND, Benson County, ND, Cass County, ND, Cavalier County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Grand Forks County, ND, Griggs County, ND, Nelson County, ND, Pembina County, ND, Ramsey County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Steele County, ND, Towner County, ND, Traill County, ND, Walsh County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:56 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 251 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
- 1784 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 298 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 200858 NPWFGF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 358 AM CDT TUE MAR 20 2007 ...SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL INCREASE TODAY... .WINDS WILL INCREASE TODAY IN THE RED RIVER VALLEY...AND GUST OVER 40 MPH AT TIMES BY AFTERNOON. WINDS WILL SLOWLY SUBSIDE OVERNIGHT...AS THE PRESSURE GRADIENT RELAXES OVER THE AREA. MNZ001>004-007-029-NDZ006>008-014>016-024-026>030-038-039-049- 052>054-210000- /O.NEW.KFGF.WI.Y.0005.070320T1500Z-070321T0000Z/ WEST POLK-NORMAN-CLAY-KITTSON-WEST MARSHALL-WILKIN-TOWNER- CAVALIER-PEMBINA-BENSON-RAMSEY-EASTERN WALSH COUNTY-EDDY-NELSON- GRAND FORKS-GRIGGS-STEELE-TRAILL-BARNES-CASS-RANSOM-SARGENT- RICHLAND-WESTERN WALSH COUNTY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CROOKSTON...EAST GRAND FORKS... HALSTAD...MOORHEAD...HALLOCK...WARREN...BRECKENRIDGE...CANDO... LANGDON...CAVALIER...MADDOCK...LEEDS...DEVILS LAKE...GRAFTON... NEW ROCKFORD...LAKOTA...GRAND FORKS...COOPERSTOWN...FINLEY... MAYVILLE...VALLEY CITY...FARGO...LISBON...GWINNER...WAHPETON... ADAMS 358 AM CDT TUE MAR 20 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. SOUTHERLY WINDS FROM 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH WILL DEVELOP BY LATE MORNING IN THE RED RIVER VALLEY...AND PERSIST INTO THE EVENING. WINDS WILL SLOWLY DECREASE AROUND SUNSET...AND CONTINUE TO SUBSIDE THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT. 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. $$ DK
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS73 KFGF 201948 NPWFGF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 248 PM CDT TUE MAR 20 2007 ...BRISK SOUTHERLY WINDS CONTINUE... .SOUTHEAST WINDS HAVE INCREASED THIS AFTERNOON OVER THE RED RIVER VALLEY IN THE RED RIVER VALLEY...GUSTING TO OVER 40 MPH AT TIMES. WINDS WILL SLOWLY SUBSIDE OVERNIGHT...AS THE PRESSURE GRADIENT RELAXES OVER THE AREA. MNZ001>004-007-029-NDZ006>008-014>016-024-026>030-038-039-049- 052>054-210000- /O.CON.KFGF.WI.Y.0005.000000T0000Z-070321T0000Z/ WEST POLK-NORMAN-CLAY-KITTSON-WEST MARSHALL-WILKIN-TOWNER- CAVALIER-PEMBINA-BENSON-RAMSEY-EASTERN WALSH COUNTY-EDDY-NELSON- GRAND FORKS-GRIGGS-STEELE-TRAILL-BARNES-CASS-RANSOM-SARGENT- RICHLAND-WESTERN WALSH COUNTY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CROOKSTON...EAST GRAND FORKS... HALSTAD...MOORHEAD...HALLOCK...WARREN...BRECKENRIDGE...CANDO... LANGDON...CAVALIER...MADDOCK...LEEDS...DEVILS LAKE...GRAFTON... NEW ROCKFORD...LAKOTA...GRAND FORKS...COOPERSTOWN...FINLEY... MAYVILLE...VALLEY CITY...FARGO...LISBON...GWINNER...WAHPETON... ADAMS 248 PM CDT TUE MAR 20 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. SOUTH SOUTHEASTERLY WINDS FROM 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH WILL CONTINUE THROUGH EARLY EVENING OVER THE RED RIVER VALLEY. WINDS WILL SLOWLY DECREASE AROUND SUNSET...AND CONTINUE TO SUBSIDE THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 MPH OR FREQUENT GUSTS TO 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$ WJB
000 WWUS73 KFGF 201951 CCA NPWFGF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 248 PM CDT TUE MAR 20 2007...CORRECTED ...BRISK SOUTHERLY WINDS CONTINUE... .SOUTHEAST WINDS HAVE INCREASED THIS AFTERNOON OVER THE RED RIVER VALLEY...GUSTING TO OVER 40 MPH AT TIMES. WINDS WILL SLOWLY SUBSIDE OVERNIGHT...AS THE PRESSURE GRADIENT RELAXES OVER THE AREA. MNZ001>004-007-029-NDZ006>008-014>016-024-026>030-038-039-049- 052>054-210000- /O.CON.KFGF.WI.Y.0005.000000T0000Z-070321T0000Z/ WEST POLK-NORMAN-CLAY-KITTSON-WEST MARSHALL-WILKIN-TOWNER- CAVALIER-PEMBINA-BENSON-RAMSEY-EASTERN WALSH COUNTY-EDDY-NELSON- GRAND FORKS-GRIGGS-STEELE-TRAILL-BARNES-CASS-RANSOM-SARGENT- RICHLAND-WESTERN WALSH COUNTY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CROOKSTON...EAST GRAND FORKS... HALSTAD...MOORHEAD...HALLOCK...WARREN...BRECKENRIDGE...CANDO... LANGDON...CAVALIER...MADDOCK...LEEDS...DEVILS LAKE...GRAFTON... NEW ROCKFORD...LAKOTA...GRAND FORKS...COOPERSTOWN...FINLEY... MAYVILLE...VALLEY CITY...FARGO...LISBON...GWINNER...WAHPETON... ADAMS 248 PM CDT TUE MAR 20 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. SOUTH SOUTHEASTERLY WINDS FROM 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH WILL CONTINUE THROUGH EARLY EVENING OVER THE RED RIVER VALLEY. WINDS WILL SLOWLY DECREASE AROUND SUNSET...AND CONTINUE TO SUBSIDE THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT. 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. $$ CORRECTED TO ELIMINATE VERBOSE VERBIAGE. WJB
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.