Alert archive / Minnesota / Wind Advisories in 2009
Wind Advisory 4, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this wind advisory at Apr 21, 2009, 10:44 AM CDT for 19 counties in Minnesota; Pierce County, Saint Croix County, Wisconsin. It took effect at Apr 21, 2009, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 21, 2009, 10:44 AM CDT (15:44 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 21, 2009, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 21, 2009, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
All 21 counties
Anoka County, MN, Blue Earth County, MN, Carver County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Ramsey County, MN, Rice County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Steele County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Washington County, MN, Wright County, MN, Pierce County, WI, Saint Croix County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:45 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, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 34 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
- 1235 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 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 211544 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1044 AM CDT TUE APR 21 2009 ...WIND ADVISORY FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND SMALL PORTION OF WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN THIS AFTERNOON... .THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA AS WELL AS SMALL PART OF WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN UNTIL 700 PM THIS EVENING. NORTHERLY WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUST NEAR 40 MPH WILL BE COMMON OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN THROUGH 700 PM THIS EVENING. THE WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO DIMINISH TO UNDER 10 MPH THIS EVENING. MNZ059>063-066>070-075>078-083>085-092-093-WIZ023-024-212345- /O.NEW.KMPX.WI.Y.0004.090421T1800Z-090422T0000Z/ WRIGHT-HENNEPIN-ANOKA-RAMSEY-WASHINGTON-MCLEOD-SIBLEY-CARVER- SCOTT-DAKOTA-NICOLLET-LE SUEUR-RICE-GOODHUE-BLUE EARTH-WASECA- STEELE-FARIBAULT-FREEBORN-ST. CROIX-PIERCE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MONTICELLO...MINNEAPOLIS...BLAINE... ST. PAUL...STILLWATER...HUTCHINSON...GAYLORD...CHASKA... SHAKOPEE...BURNSVILLE...ST. PETER...LE SUEUR...FARIBAULT... RED WING...MANKATO...WASECA...OWATONNA...BLUE EARTH... ALBERT LEA...HUDSON...NEW RICHMOND...RIVER FALLS...PRESCOTT 1044 AM CDT TUE APR 21 2009 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA AS WELL AS SMALL PART OF WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN UNTIL 700 PM THIS EVENING. NORTHERLY WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUST NEAR 40 MPH WILL BE COMMON OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN THROUGH 700 PM THIS EVENING. THE WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO DIMINISH TO UNDER 10 MPH THIS EVENING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
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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.