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Wind Advisory 8, NWS Twin Cities, MN

May 13, 200720 counties in Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this wind advisory at May 13, 2007, 10:54 AM CDT for 20 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at May 13, 2007, 11:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 13, 2007, 10:54 AM CDT (15:54 UTC)
In effect from: May 13, 2007, 11:00 AM CDT
Expired: May 13, 2007, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN

Counties Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Martin County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Steele County, MN, Swift County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:58 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 12:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 90 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1120 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 654 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 933 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 9.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WWUS73 KMPX 131554
NPWMPX

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
1054 AM CDT SUN MAY 13 2007

...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTH
CENTRAL MINNESOTA UNTIL 7 PM THIS EVENING...

.STRONG AND GUSTY SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL IMPACT MUCH OF
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MINNESOTA ALONG AND SOUTHWEST OF A LINE
FROM APPROXIMATELY BENSON TO WILLMAR TO LITCHFIELD TO GLENCOE SOUTHWARD TO
OWATONNA AND ALBERT LEA TODAY AS VERY WARM AIR PUSHES INTO THE
REGION. WIND SPEEDS OF 30 TO 35 MPH AND GUSTS TO AROUND 40 MPH
WILL ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE ADVISORY AREA. WIND SPEEDS ARE
EXPECTED TO DECREASE EARLY THIS EVENING.

MNZ054>058-064>067-073>076-082>085-091>093-140000-
/O.NEW.KMPX.WI.Y.0008.070513T1600Z-070514T0000Z/
LAC QUI PARLE-SWIFT-CHIPPEWA-KANDIYOHI-MEEKER-YELLOW MEDICINE-
RENVILLE-MCLEOD-SIBLEY-REDWOOD-BROWN-NICOLLET-LE SUEUR-WATONWAN-
BLUE EARTH-WASECA-STEELE-MARTIN-FARIBAULT-FREEBORN-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MADISON...BENSON...MONTEVIDEO...
WILLMAR...LITCHFIELD...GRANITE FALLS...OLIVIA...HUTCHINSON...
GAYLORD...REDWOOD FALLS...NEW ULM...ST. PETER...LE SUEUR...
ST. JAMES...MANKATO...WASECA...OWATONNA...FAIRMONT...BLUE EARTH...
ALBERT LEA
1054 AM CDT SUN MAY 13 2007

...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED
A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING.

STRONG AND GUSTY SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL IMPACT MUCH OF
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MINNESOTA ALONG AND SOUTHWEST OF A LINE
FROM APPROXIMATELY BENSON TO WILLMAR TO LITCHFIELD TO GLENCOE SOUTHWARD TO
OWATONNA AND ALBERT LEA TODAY AS VERY WARM AIR PUSHES INTO THE
REGION. WIND SPEEDS OF 30 TO 35 MPH AND GUSTS TO AROUND 40 MPH
WILL ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE ADVISORY AREA. WIND SPEEDS ARE
EXPECTED TO DECREASE EARLY THIS EVENING.

A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS
THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH
PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION.

$$

MDB

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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.