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Wind Advisory 19, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

May 17, 20125 counties in Minnesota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this wind advisory at May 17, 2012, 12:54 PM CDT for 5 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at May 17, 2012, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 17, 2012, 12:54 PM CDT (17:54 UTC)
In effect from
May 17, 2012, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired
May 17, 2012, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD

Counties Cottonwood County, MN, Jackson County, MN, Lincoln County, MN, Lyon County, MN, Murray County, MN

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:56 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 182 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2012-05-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2012-05-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2136 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
190 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

284 
WWUS73 KFSD 171754
NPWFSD

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1254 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2012

.GUSTY SOUTH WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 TO 50 MPH CAN
BE EXPECTED OVER THE BUFFALO RIDGE OF SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA THROUGH
EARLY EVENING. THE SOUTH WINDS WILL DECREASE TO 15 TO 30 MPH AFTER
7 PM.

MNZ071-072-080-081-090-180000-
/O.NEW.KFSD.WI.Y.0019.120517T1800Z-120518T0000Z/
LINCOLN-LYON-MURRAY-COTTONWOOD-JACKSON-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...TYLER...HENDRICKS...LAKE BENTON...
IVANHOE...MARSHALL...SLAYTON...FULDA...WINDOM...MOUNTAIN LAKE...
JACKSON...LAKEFIELD
1254 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2012

...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A WIND
ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. 

* WEATHER CONDITIONS...SOUTH WINDS WILL GUST TO 45 TO 50 MPH THE
  REST OF THE AFTERNOON.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BE
31 TO 39 MPH OR GUSTS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 46 AND 57 MPH.  WINDS OF
THESE MAGNITUDES MAY CAUSE MINOR PROPERTY DAMAGE WITHOUT EXTRA
PRECAUTIONS. MOTORISTS IN HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD USE
CAUTION UNTIL THE WINDS SUBSIDE.

&&

$$
1 follow-up statement
748 
WWUS73 KFSD 172359
NPWFSD

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
659 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2012

MNZ071-072-080-081-090-180100-
/O.EXP.KFSD.WI.Y.0019.000000T0000Z-120518T0000Z/
LINCOLN-LYON-MURRAY-COTTONWOOD-JACKSON-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...TYLER...HENDRICKS...LAKE BENTON...
IVANHOE...MARSHALL...SLAYTON...FULDA...WINDOM...MOUNTAIN LAKE...
JACKSON...LAKEFIELD
659 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2012

...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING...

WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO WEAKEN BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA FOR THE
OVERNIGHT HOURS. HOWEVER IT WILL REMAIN BREEZY...WITH SUSTAINED
WINDS UP TO 25 MPH AND GUSTS TO 35 MPH THROUGH THE NIGHT.

$$

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.