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Wind Chill Advisory 11, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

February 19, 200824 counties in South Dakota; 11 counties in Iowa; 8 counties in Minnesota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this wind chill advisory at Feb 19, 2008, 4:00 AM CST for 24 counties in South Dakota; 11 counties in Iowa; 8 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Feb 19, 2008, 3:34 PM CST. It was in force for 19 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 19, 2008, 4:00 AM CST (10:00 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 19, 2008, 3:34 PM CST
Expired
Feb 20, 2008, 10:59 AM CST
In force
19 hr
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
All 43 counties

Buena Vista County, IA, Cherokee County, IA, Clay County, IA, Dickinson County, IA, Ida County, IA, Lyon County, IA, O'Brien County, IA, Osceola County, IA, Plymouth County, IA, Sioux County, IA, Woodbury County, IA, Cottonwood County, MN, Jackson County, MN, Lincoln County, MN, Lyon County, MN, Murray County, MN, Nobles County, MN, Pipestone County, MN, Rock County, MN, Aurora County, SD, Beadle County, SD, Bon Homme County, SD, Brookings County, SD, Brule County, SD, Charles Mix County, SD, Clay County, SD, Davison County, SD, Douglas County, SD, Gregory County, SD, Hanson County, SD, Hutchinson County, SD, Jerauld County, SD, Kingsbury County, SD, Lake County, SD, Lincoln County, SD, McCook County, SD, Miner County, SD, Minnehaha County, SD, Moody County, SD, Sanborn County, SD, Turner County, SD, Union County, SD, Yankton County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 12 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:00 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 298 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 2008-02-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 2008-02-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 77 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
967 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind chill advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before this wind chill advisory went out at Feb 18, 8:25 PM CST, 7 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 18, 8:25 PM CST, 7 hours 35 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 18, 4:49 AM CST, 23 hours 11 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
0449 AM CST MON FEB 18 2008

SDZ038>040-050-052>071-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-098-
IAZ001>003-012>014-020>022-031-032-NEZ013-014-191200-
AURORA-BEADLE-BON HOMME-BROOKINGS-BRULE-BUENA VISTA IA-
CHARLES MIX-CHEROKEE IA-CLAY-CLAY IA-COTTONWOOD MN-DAKOTA NE-
DAVISON-DICKINSON IA-DIXON NE-DOUGLAS-GREGORY-HANSON-HUTCHINSON-
IDA IA-JACKSON MN-JERAULD-KINGSBURY-LAKE-LINCOLN-LINCOLN MN-
LYON IA-LYON MN-MCCOOK-MINER-MINNEHAHA-MOODY-MURRAY MN-NOBLES MN-
OBRIEN IA-OSCEOLA IA-PIPESTONE MN-PLYMOUTH IA-ROCK MN-SANBORN-
SIOUX IA-TURNER-UNION-WOODBURY IA-YANKTON-
0449 AM CST MON FEB 18 2008

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...
SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...NORTHWEST IOWA...AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

WINTER WEATHER...
DANGEROUS WIND CHILL READINGS OF 20 TO 25 BELOW ZERO WILL BE
FOUND THIS MORNING IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA WEST TO THE DESMET AREA
IN EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA. THESE DANGEROUS WIND CHILLS SHOULD
ABATE BY EARLY AFTERNOON.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

ANOTHER SHOT OF COLD AIR ON STRONG NORTHERLY WINDS MAY BRING
DANGEROUS WIND CHILLS OF 20 TO 35 BELOW ZERO TUESDAY NIGHT OVER
SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...NORTHWEST IOWA...AND MOST OF SOUTHEAST
SOUTH DAKOTA.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT.

&&

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT
WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/FSD. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS
WEATHER OUTLOOK.

WILLIAMS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 18, 6:37 PM CSTWind Chill AdvisoryFSDBrookings, Kingsbury, Lake, Minnehaha, Moody5 hr
Feb 19, 3:34 PM CSTWind Chill WarningFSDBeadle, Brookings, Clay, Kingsbury, Lake, Lincoln and 5 more20 hr

Nearby

Wind Chill Advisories in South Dakota, 2008Wind Chill Advisories in Iowa, 2008Wind Chill Advisories in Minnesota, 2008Every wind chill advisory in 2008

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.