Alert archive / Minnesota / Wind Advisories in 2007
Wind Advisory 19, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this wind advisory at Oct 31, 2007, 4:04 AM CDT for 19 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 31, 2007, 4:04 AM CDT (09:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 31, 2007, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Martin County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Pope County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Steele County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:07 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
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 1833 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 237 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS73 KMPX 311710 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1210 PM CDT WED OCT 31 2007 ...STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS CONTINUING THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS MUCH OF WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA TODAY... .GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON AS A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM NORTH OF LAKE SUPERIOR FURTHER DEEPENS. WIND GUSTS OF 35 TO 40 MPH HAVE BEEN OBSERVED THIS MORNING IN THE MINNESOTA RIVER VALLEY AREA OF WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...WITH SIMILAR GUSTS LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF 25 TO 30 MPH ARE EXPECTED. A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON FOR MUCH OF WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF AT LEAST 30 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT... ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. MOTORISTS SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION...ESPECIALLY FOR CROSS WINDS ALONG INTERSTATE 90. THE STRONG WINDS WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH BEGINNING LATE THIS AFTERNOON. MNZ041-047-048-054>057-064-065-073>075-082>085-091>093-312100- /O.CON.KMPX.WI.Y.0019.000000T0000Z-071031T2100Z/ DOUGLAS-STEVENS-POPE-LAC QUI PARLE-SWIFT-CHIPPEWA-KANDIYOHI- YELLOW MEDICINE-RENVILLE-REDWOOD-BROWN-NICOLLET-WATONWAN- BLUE EARTH-WASECA-STEELE-MARTIN-FARIBAULT-FREEBORN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALEXANDRIA...MORRIS...GLENWOOD... MADISON...BENSON...MONTEVIDEO...WILLMAR...GRANITE FALLS... OLIVIA...REDWOOD FALLS...NEW ULM...ST. PETER...ST. JAMES... MANKATO...WASECA...OWATONNA...FAIRMONT...BLUE EARTH...ALBERT LEA 1210 PM CDT WED OCT 31 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON AS A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM NORTH OF LAKE SUPERIOR FURTHER DEEPENS. WIND GUSTS OF 35 TO 40 MPH HAVE BEEN OBSERVED THIS MORNING IN THE MINNESOTA RIVER VALLEY AREA OF WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...WITH SIMILAR GUSTS LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF 25 TO 30 MPH ARE EXPECTED. A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON FOR MUCH OF WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF AT LEAST 30 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT... ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. MOTORISTS SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION...ESPECIALLY FOR CROSS WINDS ALONG INTERSTATE 90. THE STRONG WINDS WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH BEGINNING LATE THIS AFTERNOON. $$ WFO MPX
Nearby
Wind 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.