Alert archive / Minnesota / Wind Advisories in 2010
Wind Advisory 15, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this wind advisory at Nov 30, 2010, 11:55 AM CST for 5 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Nov 30, 2010, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 30, 2010, 11:55 AM CST (17:55 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 30, 2010, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Nov 30, 2010, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Blue Earth County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Martin County, MN, Waseca County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:52 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, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 630 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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
1 follow-up statement
783 WWUS73 KMPX 010005 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 605 PM CST TUE NOV 30 2010 ...WINDS SLOWLY DIMINISHING IN SOUTHERN MINNESOTA... .WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO SLOWLY DIMINISH THIS EVENING ACROSS SOUTHERN MINNESOTA. LATE THIS MORNING AND EARLY AFTERNOON WINDS WERE GUSTING OVER 45 MPH IN CITIES SUCH AS FAIRMONT... NEW ULM...AND THE MANKATO AREA. EXPECT WIND GUSTS AROUND 25 TO 30 MPH TO CONTINUE WELL INTO TONIGHT AS A STRONG PRESSURE IN ONTARIO CONTINUES TO DELIVER BLASTS OF WIND ACROSS THE AREA. MNZ083-084-091>093-010115- /O.EXP.KMPX.WI.Y.0015.000000T0000Z-101201T0000Z/ BLUE EARTH-WASECA-MARTIN-FARIBAULT-FREEBORN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MANKATO...WASECA...FAIRMONT... BLUE EARTH...ALBERT LEA 605 PM CST TUE NOV 30 2010 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM CST THIS EVENING... THE WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. * TIMING...WINDS TO CONTINUE TO SLOWLY DIMINISH THIS EVENING. * WINDS...GUSTS OF 25 TO 30 MPH THROUGH MUCH OF THE NIGHT. * IMPACTS...AN ADDED CHILL IN THE AIR AS TEMPERATURES DROP INTO THE SINGLE DIGITS. $$
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.