Alert archive / Minnesota / Wind Advisories in 2012
Wind Advisory 15, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this wind advisory at Sep 19, 2012, 3:39 AM CDT for 19 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Sep 19, 2012, 11:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 19, 2012, 3:39 AM CDT (08:39 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 19, 2012, 11:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Sep 19, 2012, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Pope County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Todd County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:37 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 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 2199 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
672 WWUS73 KMPX 190839 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 339 AM CDT WED SEP 19 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT TODAY INTO THIS EVENING FOR PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... .SUSTAINED NORTHWEST WINDS OF 30 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS NEAR 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA AFTER 11 AM TODAY...GENERALLY ALONG AND WEST OF A LONG PRAIRIE...TO GLENCOE...TO MANKATO LINE. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION...ESPECIALLY ON EAST TO WEST ORIENTED ROADWAYS...INCLUDING INTERSTATE 94 FROM ALEXANDRIA TO ST CLOUD...AND ON HIGHWAYS 12 AND 14. THESE STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS ARE OCCURRING IN ASSOCIATION WITH A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVING OVER THE UPPER GREAT LAKES. THIS AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WILL BEGIN TO LIFT EAST OF THE REGION THIS EVENING...AND ALLOW WINDS TO SUBSIDE BELOW 30 MPH BY 7 PM. MNZ041-042-047>049-054>058-064>067-073>075-082-083-191645- /O.NEW.KMPX.WI.Y.0015.120919T1600Z-120920T0000Z/ DOUGLAS-TODD-STEVENS-POPE-STEARNS-LAC QUI PARLE-SWIFT-CHIPPEWA- KANDIYOHI-MEEKER-YELLOW MEDICINE-RENVILLE-MCLEOD-SIBLEY-REDWOOD- BROWN-NICOLLET-WATONWAN-BLUE EARTH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALEXANDRIA...LONG PRAIRIE...MORRIS... GLENWOOD...ST. CLOUD...MADISON...BENSON...MONTEVIDEO...WILLMAR... LITCHFIELD...GRANITE FALLS...OLIVIA...HUTCHINSON...GAYLORD... REDWOOD FALLS...NEW ULM...ST. PETER...ST. JAMES...MANKATO 339 AM CDT WED SEP 19 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * TIMING...STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS DEVELOPING AROUND 11 AM CDT THIS MORNING AND CONTINUING UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * WINDS...SUSTAINED NORTHWEST WINDS OF 30 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 40 MPH. * IMPACTS...DIFFICULT DRIVING...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES...PARTICULARLY ON EAST TO WEST ORIENTED ROADWAYS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 30 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
1 follow-up statement
075 WWUS73 KMPX 191609 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1109 AM CDT WED SEP 19 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT THROUGH 7 PM THIS EVENING FOR PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... .A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH 7 PM FOR LOCATIONS GENERALLY ALONG AND WEST OF A LONG PRAIRIE...TO GLENCOE...TO MANKATO LINE. SUSTAINED NORTHWEST WINDS NEAR 30 MPH WITH GUSTS NEAR 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE ADVISORY AREA THIS AFTERNOON. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION...ESPECIALLY ON EAST TO WEST ORIENTED ROADWAYS...INCLUDING INTERSTATE 94 FROM ALEXANDRIA TO ST CLOUD...AND ON HIGHWAYS 12 AND 14. THESE STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS ARE OCCURRING BEHIND A STRONG COLD FRONT ASSOCIATED WITH A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVING OVER THE UPPER GREAT LAKES. THIS AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WILL BEGIN TO LIFT EAST OF THE REGION THIS EVENING...AND ALLOW WINDS TO SUBSIDE BELOW 30 MPH BY 7 PM. MNZ041-042-047>049-054>058-064>067-073>075-082-083-200000- /O.CON.KMPX.WI.Y.0015.000000T0000Z-120920T0000Z/ DOUGLAS-TODD-STEVENS-POPE-STEARNS-LAC QUI PARLE-SWIFT-CHIPPEWA- KANDIYOHI-MEEKER-YELLOW MEDICINE-RENVILLE-MCLEOD-SIBLEY-REDWOOD- BROWN-NICOLLET-WATONWAN-BLUE EARTH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALEXANDRIA...LONG PRAIRIE...MORRIS... GLENWOOD...ST. CLOUD...MADISON...BENSON...MONTEVIDEO...WILLMAR... LITCHFIELD...GRANITE FALLS...OLIVIA...HUTCHINSON...GAYLORD... REDWOOD FALLS...NEW ULM...ST. PETER...ST. JAMES...MANKATO 1109 AM CDT WED SEP 19 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... * TIMING...STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS DEVELOPING THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUING UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * WINDS...SUSTAINED NORTHWEST WINDS NEAR 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 40 MPH. * IMPACTS...DIFFICULT DRIVING...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES...PARTICULARLY ON EAST TO WEST ORIENTED ROADWAYS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 30 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
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.