Alert archive / Minnesota / Wind Advisories in 2008
Wind Advisory 10, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this wind advisory at Aug 31, 2008, 9:28 AM CDT for 7 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Aug 31, 2008, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 31, 2008, 9:28 AM CDT (14:28 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 31, 2008, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2008, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Chippewa County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Pope County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 178 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:29 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, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 2100 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -165 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -149 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 311428 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 928 AM CDT SUN AUG 31 2008 ...STRONG WINDS TO AFFECT WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA THIS AFTERNOON... .STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 30 MPH...WITH SOME GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH POSSIBLE...ACROSS WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA DURING THE AFTERNOON. THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL BE FOUND MAINLY EAST OF A LINE FROM ALEXANDRIA TO MONTEVIDEO...FROM ABOUT 1 PM UNTIL 7 PM. MOTORISTS SHOULD USE EXTRA CAUTION AS WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT. MNZ041-047-048-054>056-064-312230- /O.NEW.KMPX.WI.Y.0010.080831T1800Z-080901T0000Z/ DOUGLAS-STEVENS-POPE-LAC QUI PARLE-SWIFT-CHIPPEWA-YELLOW MEDICINE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALEXANDRIA...MORRIS...GLENWOOD... MADISON...BENSON...MONTEVIDEO...GRANITE FALLS 928 AM CDT SUN AUG 31 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 30 MPH...WITH SOME GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH POSSIBLE...ACROSS WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA DURING THE AFTERNOON. THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL BE FOUND MAINLY EAST OF A LINE FROM ALEXANDRIA TO MONTEVIDEO...FROM ABOUT 1 PM UNTIL 7 PM. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT... ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS73 KMPX 312104 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 404 PM CDT SUN AUG 31 2008 ...STRONG WINDS TO AFFECT WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING... .STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS OF 25 TO 30 MPH WILL CONTINUE LATE THIS AFTERNOON...WITH SOME GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH POSSIBLE...ACROSS WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL BE FOUND MAINLY EAST OF A LINE FROM ALEXANDRIA TO MONTEVIDEO...UNTIL ABOUT 7 PM. MOTORISTS SHOULD USE EXTRA CAUTION AS WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT. MNZ041-047-048-054>056-064-010000- /O.CON.KMPX.WI.Y.0010.000000T0000Z-080901T0000Z/ DOUGLAS-STEVENS-POPE-LAC QUI PARLE-SWIFT-CHIPPEWA-YELLOW MEDICINE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALEXANDRIA...MORRIS...GLENWOOD... MADISON...BENSON...MONTEVIDEO...GRANITE FALLS 404 PM CDT SUN AUG 31 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS OF 25 TO 30 MPH WILL CONTINUE LATE THIS AFTERNOON...WITH SOME GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH POSSIBLE...ACROSS WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL BE FOUND MAINLY EAST OF A LINE FROM ALEXANDRIA TO MONTEVIDEO...UNTIL ABOUT 7 PM. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT... ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$ MDB/AJZ
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.