Alert archive / Minnesota / Wind Advisories in 2012
Wind Advisory 25, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this wind advisory at Nov 22, 2012, 4:48 AM CST for 4 counties in Minnesota; Ransom County, Richland County, Sargent County, North Dakota. It took effect at Nov 22, 2012, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 22, 2012, 4:48 AM CST (10:48 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 22, 2012, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Nov 22, 2012, 11:21 PM CST
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
Counties Grant County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:45 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 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 3210 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 250 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
679 WWUS73 KFGF 221048 NPWFGF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 448 AM CST THU NOV 22 2012 ...STRONG WINDS TODAY... .WINDS WILL BECOME STRONG ACROSS THE SOUTHERN RED RIVER VALLEY AFTER THE PASSAGE OF A COLD FRONT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. MNZ029>032-040-NDZ049-052-053-231200- /O.NEW.KFGF.WI.Y.0025.121122T1800Z-121123T1200Z/ WILKIN-WEST OTTER TAIL-EAST OTTER TAIL-WADENA-GRANT-RANSOM- SARGENT-RICHLAND- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BRECKENRIDGE...FERGUS FALLS... NEW YORK MILLS...WADENA...ELBOW LAKE...LISBON...GWINNER... WAHPETON 448 AM CST THU NOV 22 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 AM CST FRIDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 AM CST FRIDAY. * TIMING...STRONG NORTH TO NORTHWEST WINDS WILL DEVELOP LATE MORNING AND PERSIST OVERNIGHT. * WINDS...SPEEDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO NEAR 45MPH ARE POSSIBLE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 MPH OR FREQUENT GUSTS TO 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ JK
3 follow-up statements
543 WWUS73 KFGF 222126 NPWFGF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 326 PM CST THU NOV 22 2012 ...STRONG WINDS THROUGH TONIGHT... .WINDS WILL BECOME STRONG ACROSS THE SOUTHERN RED RIVER VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING BEHIND A STRONG COLD FRONT. MNZ029>032-040-NDZ049-052-053-231200- /O.CON.KFGF.WI.Y.0025.000000T0000Z-121123T1200Z/ WILKIN-WEST OTTER TAIL-EAST OTTER TAIL-WADENA-GRANT-RANSOM- SARGENT-RICHLAND- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BRECKENRIDGE...FERGUS FALLS... NEW YORK MILLS...WADENA...ELBOW LAKE...LISBON...GWINNER... WAHPETON 326 PM CST THU NOV 22 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM CST FRIDAY... * WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO STRENGTHEN FROM THE NORTH TO NORTHWEST LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND PERSIST OVERNIGHT. * SPEEDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO NEAR 45MPH ARE POSSIBLE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 MPH OR FREQUENT GUSTS TO 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
088 WWUS73 KFGF 230056 NPWFGF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 656 PM CST THU NOV 22 2012 ...STRONG WINDS THIS EVENING... .LOOK FOR STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS THROUGH MIDNIGHT IN SOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. MNZ029>032-040-NDZ053-230200- /O.CAN.KFGF.WI.Y.0025.000000T0000Z-121123T1200Z/ WILKIN-WEST OTTER TAIL-EAST OTTER TAIL-WADENA-GRANT-RICHLAND- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BRECKENRIDGE...FERGUS FALLS... NEW YORK MILLS...WADENA...ELBOW LAKE...WAHPETON 656 PM CST THU NOV 22 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. DUE TO SNOW FALLING...THE WIND ADVISORY WAS REPLACED WITH A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY VALID UNTIL 6 AM FRIDAY. $$ NDZ049-052-230600- /O.EXT.KFGF.WI.Y.0025.000000T0000Z-121123T0600Z/ RANSOM-SARGENT- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LISBON...GWINNER 656 PM CST THU NOV 22 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT... * NORTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MIDNIGHT FROM LISBON TO FORMAN AND GWINNER. A LITTLE LIGHT SNOW MAY FALL AS WELL BUT WIND IS THE MAIN STORY. WINDS WILL SLOWLY DIMINISH AFTER MIDNIGHT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 MPH OR FREQUENT GUSTS TO 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ DTR
768 WWUS73 KFGF 230521 NPWFGF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 1121 PM CST THU NOV 22 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST ND HAS BEEN CANCELLED... NDZ049-052-230630- /O.CAN.KFGF.WI.Y.0025.000000T0000Z-121123T0600Z/ RANSOM-SARGENT- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LISBON...GWINNER 1121 PM CST THU NOV 22 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. NORTHWEST WINDS IN THE RANSOM AND SARGENT COUNTIES WILL SLOWLY DIMINISH DURING THE OVERNIGHT AND EARLY MORNING AND BE IN THE 15 TO 25 MPH RANGE AT SUNRISE. THUS THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$ DTR
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.