Alert archive / Minnesota / High Wind Warnings in 2011
High Wind Warning 3, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this high wind warning at Jun 13, 2011, 7:05 AM CDT for Grant County, Otter Tail County, Wilkin County, Minnesota. It was in force for 115 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 2011, 7:05 AM CDT (12:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2011, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
Counties Grant County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Wilkin County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 173 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:07 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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 235 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
- 1027 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 251 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 246 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
068 WWUS73 KFGF 131205 NPWFGF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 705 AM CDT MON JUN 13 2011 ...LOCALIZED HIGH WINDS OVER WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... .DISSIPATING SHOWERS OVER WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA IS PRODUCING WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH IN THE FERGUS FALLS AREA. THESE WINDS ARE BRIEFLY INTENSE AND WILL DIMINISH BEFORE 9 AM. MNZ029>031-040-131400- /O.NEW.KFGF.HW.W.0003.110613T1205Z-110613T1400Z/ WILKIN-WEST OTTER TAIL-EAST OTTER TAIL-GRANT- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BRECKENRIDGE...FERGUS FALLS... NEW YORK MILLS...ELBOW LAKE 705 AM CDT MON JUN 13 2011 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CDT THIS MORNING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CDT THIS MORNING. * TIMING...UNTIL 9 AM * WINDS...SOUTHEAST WINDS GUSTING TO 60 MPH. * IMPACTS...THESE WINDS WILL DOWN TREES AND MAYBE POWERLINES PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR MORE CAN LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE. && $$ DTR
1 follow-up statement
759 WWUS73 KFGF 131400 NPWFGF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 900 AM CDT MON JUN 13 2011 ...HIGH WIND THREAT HAS SUBSIDED... MNZ029>031-040-131500- /O.EXP.KFGF.HW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-110613T1400Z/ WILKIN-WEST OTTER TAIL-EAST OTTER TAIL-GRANT- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BRECKENRIDGE...FERGUS FALLS... NEW YORK MILLS...ELBOW LAKE 900 AM CDT MON JUN 13 2011 ...HIGH WIND WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 9 AM CDT THIS MORNING... THE THREAT FOR ADDITIONAL HIGH WIND GUSTS HAS PASSED SO THE HIGH WIND WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$
Nearby
High Wind Warnings in Minnesota, 2011Every high wind warning in 2011
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.