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Wind Chill Advisory 2, NWS Grand Forks, ND
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.
- 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
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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</html>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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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 6, 3:58 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | FGF | Wilkin | 25 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.