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Wind Chill Advisory 5, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this wind chill advisory at Mar 11, 2009, 3:40 AM CDT for 5 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 11, 2009, 3:40 AM CDT (08:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 11, 2009, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
Counties Dodge County, MN, Fillmore County, MN, Mower County, MN, Olmsted County, MN, Wabasha County, MN
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:43 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 480 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 La Crosse, WI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this wind chill advisory went out at Mar 10, 1:59 PM CDT, 13 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 10, 1:59 PM CDT, 13 hours 41 minutes before
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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.