Alert archive / Minnesota / Frost Advisories in 2008
Frost Advisory 3, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this frost advisory at Oct 2, 2008, 3:46 PM CDT for 11 counties in Minnesota; Polk County, Wisconsin. It took effect at Oct 3, 2008, 2:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 2, 2008, 3:46 PM CDT (20:46 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 3, 2008, 2:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 3, 2008, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Benton County, MN, Chisago County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Isanti County, MN, Kanabec County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Pope County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Todd County, MN, Polk County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:02 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 1085 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 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 KMPX 022046 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 346 PM CDT THU OCT 2 2008 ...FROST ADVISORY LATE TONIGHT FOR CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND A SMALL PART OF WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN... .A COOL FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN THIS EVENING. CLEARING SKIES AND DRIER AIR BEHIND THE FRONT WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR TEMPERATURES TO DROP INTO THE LOWER AND MIDDLE 30S LATE TONIGHT. AREAS OF FROST ARE LIKELY GENERALLY NORTH OF A LONE FROM AROUND GLENWOOD...TO ST CLOUD...TO RICE LAKE. AREA NURSERIES AND GARDNERS SHOULD TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS FOR THOSE TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE PLANTS. MNZ041>045-048>053-WIZ014-030500- /O.NEW.KMPX.FR.Y.0003.081003T0700Z-081003T1300Z/ DOUGLAS-TODD-MORRISON-MILLE LACS-KANABEC-POPE-STEARNS-BENTON- SHERBURNE-ISANTI-CHISAGO-POLK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALEXANDRIA...LONG PRAIRIE... LITTLE FALLS...PRINCETON...MORA...GLENWOOD...ST. CLOUD...FOLEY... ELK RIVER...CAMBRIDGE...CENTER CITY...AMERY...BALSAM LAKE 346 PM CDT THU OCT 2 2008 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 8 AM CDT FRIDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 8 AM CDT FRIDAY. CLEARING SKIES AND DRIER AIR BEHIND A COLD FRONT...WILL ALLOW TEMPERATURES TO DROP INTO THE LOWER AND MIDDLE 30S LATE TONIGHT. AREAS OF FROST ARE LIKELY IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS73 KMPX 022253 CCA NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 552 PM CDT THU OCT 2 2008 ...FROST ADVISORY LATE TONIGHT FOR CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND A SMALL PART OF WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN... .A COOL FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN THIS EVENING. CLEARING SKIES AND DRIER AIR BEHIND THE FRONT WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR TEMPERATURES TO DROP INTO THE LOWER AND MIDDLE 30S LATE TONIGHT. AREAS OF FROST ARE LIKELY GENERALLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM AROUND GLENWOOD...TO ST CLOUD...TO RICE LAKE. AREA NURSERIES AND GARDENERS SHOULD TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS FOR THOSE TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE PLANTS. MNZ041>045-048>053-WIZ014-030715- /O.NEW.KMPX.FR.Y.0003.081003T0700Z-081003T1300Z/ DOUGLAS-TODD-MORRISON-MILLE LACS-KANABEC-POPE-STEARNS-BENTON- SHERBURNE-ISANTI-CHISAGO-POLK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALEXANDRIA...LONG PRAIRIE... LITTLE FALLS...PRINCETON...MORA...GLENWOOD...ST. CLOUD...FOLEY... ELK RIVER...CAMBRIDGE...CENTER CITY...AMERY...BALSAM LAKE 552 PM CDT THU OCT 2 2008 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 8 AM CDT FRIDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 8 AM CDT FRIDAY. CLEARING SKIES AND DRIER AIR BEHIND A COLD FRONT...WILL ALLOW TEMPERATURES TO DROP INTO THE LOWER AND MIDDLE 30S LATE TONIGHT. AREAS OF FROST ARE LIKELY IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. $$
000 WWUS73 KMPX 030613 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 113 AM CDT FRI OCT 3 2008 ...FROST ADVISORY LATE TONIGHT FOR CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND A SMALL PART OF WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN... .OVERNIGHT TEMPERATURES OVER CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN WILL LOWER INTO THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 30S BY DAYBREAK THURSDAY. LIGHT WINDS...CLEAR SKIES AND DRY AIRMASS WILL CAUSE THE FORMATION OF WIDESPREAD FROST AS TEMPERATURES LOWER INTO THE 30S. AREAS OF FROST ARE LIKELY GENERALLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM AROUND GLENWOOD...TO ST CLOUD...TO RICE LAKE. AREA NURSERIES AND GARDENERS SHOULD HAD ALREADY TAKEN NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS FOR TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE PLANTS. MNZ041>045-048>053-WIZ014-031300- /O.CON.KMPX.FR.Y.0003.081003T0700Z-081003T1300Z/ DOUGLAS-TODD-MORRISON-MILLE LACS-KANABEC-POPE-STEARNS-BENTON- SHERBURNE-ISANTI-CHISAGO-POLK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALEXANDRIA...LONG PRAIRIE... LITTLE FALLS...PRINCETON...MORA...GLENWOOD...ST. CLOUD...FOLEY... ELK RIVER...CAMBRIDGE...CENTER CITY...AMERY...BALSAM LAKE 113 AM CDT FRI OCT 3 2008 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM CDT THIS MORNING... A FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM CDT THIS MORNING. CLEAR SKIES AND LIGHT WINDS WILL SENT THE TEMPERATURES TUMBLING INTO THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 30S BY DAYBREAK THURSDAY. THESE CONDITION WILL CAUSE SOME WIDESPREAD FROST. A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. $$
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.