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Heat Advisory 1, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 22, 2009Hennepin County, Ramsey County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this heat advisory at Jun 22, 2009, 3:44 PM CDT for Hennepin County, Ramsey County, Minnesota. It took effect at Jun 23, 2009, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 22, 2009, 3:44 PM CDT (20:44 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 23, 2009, 10:00 AM CDT
Expired
Jun 23, 2009, 3:47 AM CDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN

Counties Hennepin County, MN, Ramsey County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 30 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 2009-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 554 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2009-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 67 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
554 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-135 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
761 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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What forecasters said that day

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

NWS Twin Cities, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this heat advisory went out at Jun 22, 3:37 PM CDT, 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 3:37 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 22, 2:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 7:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXWaseca45 min
Jun 21, 7:25 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXBlue Earth, Faribault, Freeborn, Waseca65 min
Jun 21, 7:27 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXBlue Earth, Waseca33 min
Jun 21, 8:08 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXFaribault, Freeborn67 min
Jun 21, 8:19 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMPXFaribault3 hr
Jun 21, 8:28 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXFaribault, Freeborn32 min
Jun 21, 9:04 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMPXFreeborn4 hr
Jun 21, 9:07 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXFreeborn53 min
Jun 21, 9:20 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXFreeborn40 min
Jun 21, 9:59 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXFreeborn34 min
Jun 21, 10:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXFreeborn31 min
Jun 22, 4:37 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMPXRusk3 hr
Jun 22, 5:03 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMPXChippewa3 hr
Jun 22, 7:30 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningMPXRusk3 hr
Jun 22, 7:50 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningMPXChippewa3 hr

Nearby

Heat Advisories in Minnesota, 2009Every heat 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.