Alert archive / Minnesota / Wind Advisories in 2007
Wind Advisory 8, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this wind advisory at Apr 6, 2007, 11:46 AM CDT for 7 counties in Minnesota; 5 counties in Iowa. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 6, 2007, 11:46 AM CDT (16:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 6, 2007, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Counties Buena Vista County, IA, Clay County, IA, Dickinson County, IA, O'Brien County, IA, Osceola County, IA, Cottonwood County, MN, Jackson County, MN, Lincoln County, MN, Lyon County, MN, Murray County, MN, Nobles County, MN, Pipestone County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 1029 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -56 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 KFSD 061646 NPWFSD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1146 AM CDT FRI APR 6 2007 .STRONG NORTH WINDS BRINGING ANOTHER SURGE OF COLD AIR WILL REACH SUSTAINED SPEEDS ABOVE 30 MPH AND GUSTS OVER 40 MPH AT TIMES THIS AFTERNOON IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND PART OF NORTHWEST IOWA. THE WINDS WILL DECREASE SLOWLY THIS EVENING AS THE PRESSURE GRADIENT RELAXES A LITTLE. IAZ002-003-013-014-022-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-070000- /O.NEW.KFSD.WI.Y.0008.070406T1646Z-070407T0000Z/ OSCEOLA-DICKINSON-OBRIEN-CLAY-BUENA VISTA-LINCOLN-LYON-MURRAY- COTTONWOOD-NOBLES-JACKSON-PIPESTONE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SIBLEY...SPIRIT LAKE...MILFORD... ARNOLDS PARK...SHELDON...HARTLEY...SANBORN...SPENCER... STORM LAKE...TYLER...HENDRICKS...LAKE BENTON...IVANHOE... MARSHALL...SLAYTON...FULDA...WINDOM...MOUNTAIN LAKE... WORTHINGTON...JACKSON...LAKEFIELD...PIPESTONE 1146 AM CDT FRI APR 6 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. NORTH WINDS WILL AVERAGE 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS ABOVE 40 MPH AT TIMES THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE START OF THE EVENING. WINDS SHOULD BEGIN TO DECREASE SLOWLY AS SUNSET APPROACHES. A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BE 31 TO 39 MPH OR GUSTS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 46 AND 57 MPH. WINDS OF THESE MAGNITUDES MAY CAUSE MINOR PROPERTY DAMAGE WITHOUT EXTRA PRECAUTIONS. MOTORISTS IN HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD USE CAUTION UNTIL THE WINDS SUBSIDE. $$ WILLIAMS
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS73 KFSD 062350 NPWFSD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 650 PM CDT FRI APR 6 2007 .A STRONG NORTHERLY FLOW OF COLD AIR WILL GRADUALLY DECREASE TONIGHT. IAZ002-003-013-014-022-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-070100- /O.EXP.KFSD.WI.Y.0008.000000T0000Z-070407T0000Z/ OSCEOLA-DICKINSON-OBRIEN-CLAY-BUENA VISTA-LINCOLN-LYON-MURRAY- COTTONWOOD-NOBLES-JACKSON-PIPESTONE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SIBLEY...SPIRIT LAKE...MILFORD... ARNOLDS PARK...SHELDON...HARTLEY...SANBORN...SPENCER... STORM LAKE...TYLER...HENDRICKS...LAKE BENTON...IVANHOE... MARSHALL...SLAYTON...FULDA...WINDOM...MOUNTAIN LAKE... WORTHINGTON...JACKSON...LAKEFIELD...PIPESTONE 650 PM CDT FRI APR 6 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. STRONG NORTH TO NORTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 40 MPH WILL DECREASE TO 20 TO 30 MPH...BELOW WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA...IN MOST AREAS FOR THE REST OF THE EVENING. $$
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.