Alert archive / Wisconsin / Freeze Warnings in 2012
Freeze Warning 2, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this freeze warning at Mar 28, 2012, 3:22 PM CDT for 6 counties in Wisconsin. It took effect at Mar 29, 2012, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 28, 2012, 3:22 PM CDT (20:22 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 29, 2012, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 29, 2012, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Barron County, WI, Chippewa County, WI, Dunn County, WI, Eau Claire County, WI, Polk County, WI, Rusk County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 794 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
708 WWUS73 KMPX 282022 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 322 PM CDT WED MAR 28 2012 ...BELOW FREEZING TEMPERATURES EXPECTED IN WESTERN WISCONSIN LATE TONIGHT... .A FREEZE WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY THURSDAY MORNING. TEMPERATURES WILL FALL INTO UPPER 30S LATE THIS EVENING AND FALL BELOW FREEZING AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. EVEN THOUGH NORMAL LOW TEMPERATURES THIS TIME OF YEAR ARE IN THE MID TO UPPER 20S IN WESTERN WISCONSIN...ANY SENSITIVE VEGETATION LEFT OUTSIDE OVERNIGHT WILL BE VULNERABLE TO FREEZING TEMPERATURES. WIZ014>016-025-027-028-290430- /O.NEW.KMPX.FZ.W.0002.120329T0600Z-120329T1400Z/ POLK-BARRON-RUSK-DUNN-CHIPPEWA-EAU CLAIRE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...AMERY...BALSAM LAKE...RICE LAKE... BARRON...LADYSMITH...MENOMONIE...BOYCEVILLE...CHIPPEWA FALLS... BLOOMER...EAU CLAIRE...ALTOONA 322 PM CDT WED MAR 28 2012 ...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM CDT THURSDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A FREEZE WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM CDT THURSDAY. * TIMING...TEMPERATURES AT OR BELOW FREEZING ARE EXPECTED AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. * IMPACTS...SENSITIVE VEGETATION WILL BE VULNERABLE TO DAMAGE DUE TO THE EXPECTED FREEZING TEMPERATURES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS MIGHT KILL SENSITIVE VEGETATION THAT IS ALREADY GROWING GIVEN THE EARLY WARMTH. && $$
2 follow-up statements
385 WWUS73 KMPX 290253 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 953 PM CDT WED MAR 28 2012 ...BELOW FREEZING TEMPERATURES EXPECTED IN WESTERN WISCONSIN LATE TONIGHT... .A FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY THURSDAY MORNING. TEMPERATURES WILL FALL BELOW FREEZING AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. EVEN THOUGH NORMAL LOW TEMPERATURES THIS TIME OF YEAR ARE IN THE MID TO UPPER 20S IN WESTERN WISCONSIN...ANY SENSITIVE VEGETATION LEFT OUTSIDE OVERNIGHT WILL BE VULNERABLE TO FREEZING TEMPERATURES. WIZ014>016-025-027-028-291100- /O.CON.KMPX.FZ.W.0002.120329T0600Z-120329T1400Z/ POLK-BARRON-RUSK-DUNN-CHIPPEWA-EAU CLAIRE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...AMERY...BALSAM LAKE...RICE LAKE... BARRON...LADYSMITH...MENOMONIE...BOYCEVILLE...CHIPPEWA FALLS... BLOOMER...EAU CLAIRE...ALTOONA 953 PM CDT WED MAR 28 2012 ...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM CDT THURSDAY... * TIMING...TEMPERATURES AT OR BELOW FREEZING ARE EXPECTED AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. * IMPACTS...SENSITIVE VEGETATION WILL BE VULNERABLE TO DAMAGE DUE TO THE EXPECTED FREEZING TEMPERATURES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS MIGHT KILL SENSITIVE VEGETATION THAT IS ALREADY GROWING GIVEN THE EARLY WARMTH. && $$
096 WWUS73 KMPX 291019 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 519 AM CDT THU MAR 29 2012 ...NEAR OR BELOW FREEZING TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH EARLY MORNING... .A FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN THROUGH 9 AM. TEMPERATURES WILL HOLD NEAR OR SLIGHTLY BELOW FREEZING THROUGH 9 AM. THESE CONDITIONS MIGHT KILL SENSITIVE VEGETATION THAT IS ALREADY GROWING GIVEN THE EARLY WARMTH. WIZ014>016-025-027-028-291400- /O.CON.KMPX.FZ.W.0002.000000T0000Z-120329T1400Z/ POLK-BARRON-RUSK-DUNN-CHIPPEWA-EAU CLAIRE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...AMERY...BALSAM LAKE...RICE LAKE... BARRON...LADYSMITH...MENOMONIE...BOYCEVILLE...CHIPPEWA FALLS... BLOOMER...EAU CLAIRE...ALTOONA 519 AM CDT THU MAR 29 2012 ...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CDT THIS MORNING... * TIMING...TEMPERATURES AT OR BELOW FREEZING THROUGH 9 AM. * IMPACTS...SENSITIVE VEGETATION WILL BE VULNERABLE TO DAMAGE DUE TO THE EXPECTED FREEZING TEMPERATURES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS MIGHT KILL SENSITIVE VEGETATION THAT IS ALREADY GROWING GIVEN THE EARLY WARMTH. && $$ JLT
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.