Alert archive / Minnesota / Wind Advisories in 2010
Wind Advisory 12, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this wind advisory at Oct 20, 2010, 3:41 AM CDT for 25 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Oct 20, 2010, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 20, 2010, 3:41 AM CDT (08:41 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 20, 2010, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 20, 2010, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
All 25 counties
Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Martin County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Pope County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Steele County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Todd County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:38 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 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 2246 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
665 WWUS73 KMPX 200841 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 341 AM CDT WED OCT 20 2010 ...STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON... .A COLD FRONT WILL BE SURGING SOUTHEAST INTO MINNESOTA TODAY... REACHING THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE STATE THIS AFTERNOON. EXPECT AN INCREASE IN NORTHWEST WINDS WITH THE COLD FRONT...BEGINNING FIRST IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...AND THEN SPREADING SOUTHEAST DURING THE AFTERNOON. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS WILL BE AROUND 30 MPH WITH A FEW HIGHER GUSTS TO NEAR 40 MPH. A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON FOR AREAS WEST OF A LINE FROM LONG PRAIRIE...TO ST CLOUD...TO WASECA. MNZ041-042-047>049-054>058-064>067-073>076-082>085-091>093-201645- /O.NEW.KMPX.WI.Y.0012.101020T1700Z-101021T0000Z/ DOUGLAS-TODD-STEVENS-POPE-STEARNS-LAC QUI PARLE-SWIFT-CHIPPEWA- KANDIYOHI-MEEKER-YELLOW MEDICINE-RENVILLE-MCLEOD-SIBLEY-REDWOOD- BROWN-NICOLLET-LE SUEUR-WATONWAN-BLUE EARTH-WASECA-STEELE-MARTIN- FARIBAULT-FREEBORN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALEXANDRIA...LONG PRAIRIE...MORRIS... GLENWOOD...ST. CLOUD...MADISON...BENSON...MONTEVIDEO...WILLMAR... LITCHFIELD...GRANITE FALLS...OLIVIA...HUTCHINSON...GAYLORD... REDWOOD FALLS...NEW ULM...ST. PETER...LE SUEUR...ST. JAMES... MANKATO...WASECA...OWATONNA...FAIRMONT...BLUE EARTH...ALBERT LEA 341 AM CDT WED OCT 20 2010 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * TIMING...BEGINNING FIRST IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA AROUND NOON...THEN REACHING SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA BY MID AFTERNOON. * WINDS...NORTHWEST AROUND 30 MPH WITH A FEW GUSTS TO 40 MPH. * IMPACTS...BRIEF DIFFICULT DRIVING ALONG WEST-EAST ROADS. SMALL OBJECTS MAY BE BLOWN AROUND. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 30 TO 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
1 follow-up statement
978 WWUS73 KMPX 201618 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1118 AM CDT WED OCT 20 2010 ...STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON... .A COLD FRONT WILL BE SURGING SOUTHEAST INTO MINNESOTA TODAY... REACHING THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE STATE AROUND SUNSET. EXPECT AN INCREASE IN NORTHWEST WINDS WITH THE COLD FRONT...BEGINNING FIRST IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...AND THEN SPREADING SOUTHEAST DURING THE AFTERNOON. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS WILL BE AROUND 30 MPH WITH A FEW HIGHER GUSTS TO NEAR 40 MPH. A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON FOR AREAS WEST OF A LINE FROM LONG PRAIRIE...TO ST. CLOUD...TO WASECA. MNZ041-042-047>049-054>058-064>067-073>076-082>085-091>093-210000- /O.CON.KMPX.WI.Y.0012.101020T1700Z-101021T0000Z/ DOUGLAS-TODD-STEVENS-POPE-STEARNS-LAC QUI PARLE-SWIFT-CHIPPEWA- KANDIYOHI-MEEKER-YELLOW MEDICINE-RENVILLE-MCLEOD-SIBLEY-REDWOOD- BROWN-NICOLLET-LE SUEUR-WATONWAN-BLUE EARTH-WASECA-STEELE-MARTIN- FARIBAULT-FREEBORN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALEXANDRIA...LONG PRAIRIE...MORRIS... GLENWOOD...ST. CLOUD...MADISON...BENSON...MONTEVIDEO...WILLMAR... LITCHFIELD...GRANITE FALLS...OLIVIA...HUTCHINSON...GAYLORD... REDWOOD FALLS...NEW ULM...ST. PETER...LE SUEUR...ST. JAMES... MANKATO...WASECA...OWATONNA...FAIRMONT...BLUE EARTH...ALBERT LEA 1118 AM CDT WED OCT 20 2010 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * TIMING...BEGINNING FIRST IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA AROUND NOON...THEN REACHING SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA BY MID AFTERNOON. * WINDS...NORTHWEST AROUND 30 MPH WITH A FEW GUSTS TO 40 MPH. * IMPACTS...BRIEF DIFFICULT DRIVING ALONG WEST-EAST ROADS. SMALL OBJECTS MAY BE BLOWN AROUND. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 30 TO 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
Nearby
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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.