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Wind Chill Advisory 10, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

December 14, 20098 counties in South Dakota; 4 counties in Iowa; 7 counties in Minnesota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this wind chill advisory at Dec 14, 2009, 2:56 PM CST for 8 counties in South Dakota; 4 counties in Iowa; 7 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Dec 14, 2009, 9:00 PM CST. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 14, 2009, 2:56 PM CST (20:56 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 14, 2009, 9:00 PM CST
Expired
Dec 15, 2009, 9:00 AM CST
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD

Counties Buena Vista County, IA, Clay County, IA, Dickinson County, IA, Osceola County, IA, Cottonwood County, MN, Jackson County, MN, Lincoln County, MN, Lyon County, MN, Murray County, MN, Nobles County, MN, Pipestone County, MN, Beadle County, SD, Brookings County, SD, Jerauld County, SD, Kingsbury County, SD, Lake County, SD, Miner County, SD, Moody County, SD, Sanborn County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:00 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 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 248 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 12:00Z on 2009-12-14Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2009-12-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
446 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
108 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 Dec 13, 3:40 PM CST, 23 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 13, 3:40 PM CST, 23 hours 16 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 13, 10:49 PM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryFSDBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, O'Brien and 2 more5 hr

Nearby

Wind Chill Advisories in South Dakota, 2009Wind Chill Advisories in Minnesota, 2009Wind Chill Advisories in Iowa, 2009Every wind chill advisory in 2009

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.