Alert archive / Minnesota / Winter Storm Watches in 2010
Winter Storm Watch 1, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this winter storm watch at Jan 5, 2010, 3:54 PM CST for 14 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Jan 6, 2010, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 5, 2010, 3:54 PM CST (21:54 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 6, 2010, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Jan 6, 2010, 1:02 AM CST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Martin County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Steele County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:51 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 365 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
- 515 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Twin Cities, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this winter storm watch went out at Jan 5, 3:45 PM CST, 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 5, 3:45 PM CST, 9 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 5, 1:11 PM CST, 2 hours 43 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 111 PM CST TUE JAN 5 2010 MNZ041>045-047>070-073>078-082>085-091>093-WIZ014>016-023>028- 061045- DOUGLAS-TODD-MORRISON-MILLE LACS-KANABEC-STEVENS-POPE-STEARNS- BENTON-SHERBURNE-ISANTI-CHISAGO-LAC QUI PARLE-SWIFT-CHIPPEWA- KANDIYOHI-MEEKER-WRIGHT-HENNEPIN-ANOKA-RAMSEY-WASHINGTON- YELLOW MEDICINE-RENVILLE-MCLEOD-SIBLEY-CARVER-SCOTT-DAKOTA- REDWOOD-BROWN-NICOLLET-LE SUEUR-RICE-GOODHUE-WATONWAN-BLUE EARTH- WASECA-STEELE-MARTIN-FARIBAULT-FREEBORN-POLK-BARRON-RUSK- ST. CROIX-PIERCE-DUNN-PEPIN-EAU CLAIRE- 111 PM CST TUE JAN 5 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MINNESOTA...AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY ACCUMULATING SNOW IS POSSIBLE ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 94 WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT AS A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVES SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS. SNOW ACCUMULATIONS FROM 3 TO 5 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE FROM BENSON TO FARIBAULT ON SOUTHWARD. IN ADDITION...NORTHWEST WINDS WILL BE ON THE INCREASE WEDNESDAY NIGHT WITH AREAS OF BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW DEVELOPING ACROSS WEST CENTRAL THROUGH SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA THROUGH THE DAY THURSDAY. ANOTHER SURGE OF VERY COLD ARCTIC AIR WILL FOLLOW THIS WEATHER SYSTEM FOR THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...WITH DANGEROUSLY COLD WIND CHILL VALUES OF 30 TO 40 BELOW ZERO POSSIBLE FRIDAY MORNING FROM WEST INTO SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 5, 3:54 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | MPX | Douglas, Freeborn, Goodhue, Kandiyohi, Le Sueur, Nicollet and 7 more | 56 hr |
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.