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Wind Chill Advisory 2, NWS Grand Forks, ND

January 6, 201018 counties in Minnesota; 8 counties in North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this wind chill advisory at Jan 6, 2010, 3:39 PM CST for 18 counties in Minnesota; 8 counties in North Dakota. It took effect at Jan 6, 2010, 9:00 PM CST. It was in force for 39 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 6, 2010, 3:39 PM CST (21:39 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 6, 2010, 9:00 PM CST
Expired
Jan 8, 2010, 12:00 PM CST
In force
39 hr
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND
All 26 counties

Becker County, MN, Beltrami County, MN, Clay County, MN, Clearwater County, MN, Grant County, MN, Hubbard County, MN, Kittson County, MN, Lake of the Woods County, MN, Mahnomen County, MN, Marshall County, MN, Norman County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pennington County, MN, Polk County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Roseau County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Cass County, ND, Grand Forks County, ND, Nelson County, ND, Pembina County, ND, Richland County, ND, Steele County, ND, Traill County, ND, Walsh County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 333 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, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2010-01-06Temperature 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, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2010-01-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 117 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
526 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
117 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
206 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 Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before this wind chill advisory went out at Jan 6, 3:28 PM CST, 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 6, 3:28 PM CST, 11 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 6, 6:13 AM CST, 9 hours 26 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND
613 AM CST WED JAN 6 2010

MNZ001>004-007-027-029>031-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024-026>030-038-
039-049-052>054-071300-
WEST POLK-NORMAN-CLAY-KITTSON-WEST MARSHALL-WEST BECKER-WILKIN-
WEST OTTER TAIL-EAST OTTER TAIL-GRANT-TOWNER-CAVALIER-PEMBINA-
BENSON-RAMSEY-EASTERN WALSH COUNTY-EDDY-NELSON-GRAND FORKS-GRIGGS-
STEELE-TRAILL-BARNES-CASS-RANSOM-SARGENT-RICHLAND-
WESTERN WALSH COUNTY-
613 AM CST WED JAN 6 2010

...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM THURSDAY FOR AREAS
NEAR THE NORTH DAKOTA AND SOUTH DAKOTA BORDER...

...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM THURSDAY FOR
EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND ADJACENT PORTIONS OF MINNESOTA...

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN NORTH
DAKOTA...WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SNOW WILL CONTINUE INTO THIS EVENING. AREAS NEAR THE NORTH DAKOTA
AND SOUTH DAKOTA BORDER WILL RECEIVE THE MOST SNOWFALL...WHERE 6
TO 9 INCHES ARE EXPECTED. 3 TO 6 INCHES OF SNOW IS EXPECTED FROM
THE DEVILS LAKE BASIN INTO THE VALLEY CITY...FARGO AND FERGUS
FALLS AREA. 1 TO 3 INCHES OF SNOW IS EXPECTED ACROSS THE NORTHERN
RED RIVER VALLEY. WINDS WILL BECOME NORTHERLY AND INCREASE UP TO
25 MPH BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON. THESE WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH
TONIGHT. THIS WILL PRODUCE BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW IN OPEN
AREAS...SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCING VISIBILITIES. HAZARDOUS WIND CHILL
VALUES OF 25 BELOW TO 40 BELOW ZERO WILL DEVELOP BY LATE THIS
AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE INTO TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

HAZARDOUS WIND CHILL VALUES OF 25 BELOW TO 40 BELOW ZERO WILL
CONTINUE THURSDAY INTO THURSDAY NIGHT.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

MNZ005-006-008-009-013>017-022>024-028-032-071300-
ROSEAU-LAKE OF THE WOODS-EAST MARSHALL-NORTH BELTRAMI-PENNINGTON-
RED LAKE-EAST POLK-NORTH CLEARWATER-SOUTH BELTRAMI-MAHNOMEN-
SOUTH CLEARWATER-HUBBARD-EAST BECKER-WADENA-
613 AM CST WED JAN 6 2010

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN NORTH
DAKOTA...WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

LIGHT SNOW IS POSSIBLE EAST OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY TODAY...WITH
UP TO AN INCH OF ACCUMULATION POSSIBLE. HAZARDOUS WIND CHILL
VALUES BELOW 25 BELOW ZERO MAY DEVELOP BY LATE TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

HAZARDOUS WIND CHILL VALUES OF 25 BELOW TO 40 BELOW ZERO WILL
OCCUR THURSDAY INTO THURSDAY NIGHT.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

TG

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jan 6, 12:53 PM CST, 2 hours 46 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 6, 3:58 AM CSTWinter Storm WarningFGFWilkin25 hr

Nearby

Wind Chill Advisories in Minnesota, 2010Wind Chill Advisories in North Dakota, 2010Every wind chill advisory in 2010

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.