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Blizzard Watch 1, NWS Grand Forks, ND

January 18, 20138 counties in Minnesota; 12 counties in North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this blizzard watch at Jan 18, 2013, 4:11 AM CST for 8 counties in Minnesota; 12 counties in North Dakota. It took effect at Jan 19, 2013, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 18, 2013, 4:11 AM CST (10:11 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 19, 2013, 6:00 AM CST
Expired: Jan 19, 2013, 4:50 AM CST
In force
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND

Counties Kittson County, MN, Mahnomen County, MN, Marshall County, MN, Norman County, MN, Pennington County, MN, Polk County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Roseau County, MN, Benson County, ND, Cavalier County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Grand Forks County, ND, Griggs County, ND, Nelson County, ND, Pembina County, ND, Ramsey County, ND, Steele County, ND, Towner County, ND, Traill County, ND, Walsh County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:14 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 359 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 626 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 82 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 244 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 451 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this blizzard watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before this blizzard watch went out at Jan 17, 9:28 PM CST, 6 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 17, 9:28 PM CST, 6 hours 43 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 17, 5:22 AM CST, 22 hours 49 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND
522 AM CST THU JAN 17 2013

MNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024-
026>030-038-039-049-052>054-181130-
WEST POLK-NORMAN-CLAY-KITTSON-ROSEAU-LAKE OF THE WOODS-
WEST MARSHALL-EAST MARSHALL-NORTH BELTRAMI-PENNINGTON-RED LAKE-
EAST POLK-NORTH CLEARWATER-SOUTH BELTRAMI-MAHNOMEN-
SOUTH CLEARWATER-HUBBARD-WEST BECKER-EAST BECKER-WILKIN-
WEST OTTER TAIL-EAST OTTER TAIL-WADENA-GRANT-TOWNER-CAVALIER-
PEMBINA-BENSON-RAMSEY-EASTERN WALSH-EDDY-NELSON-GRAND FORKS-
GRIGGS-STEELE-TRAILL-BARNES-CASS-RANSOM-SARGENT-RICHLAND-
WESTERN WALSH-
522 AM CST THU JAN 17 2013

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN NORTH
DAKOTA...WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A BAND OF LIGHT SNOW WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA TONIGHT WITH MOST
PLACES GETTING LESS THAN AN INCH. LOCATIONS AROUND
HALLOCK...ROSEAU...WARROAD AND BAUDETTE WILL SEE A BIT MORE...WITH
AN INCH OR TWO.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

SOME LIGHT SNOW WILL OCCUR LATE FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY...MOSTLY
OVER THE LAKE OF THE WOODS REGION. ALL AREAS WILL SEE INCREASING
NORTH WINDS TO 20 TO 35 MPH SATURDAY AND FALLING TEMPERATURES.

THE COLDEST AIRMASS OF THE WINTER SEASON TO DATE WILL MOVE IN FOR
SUNDAY INTO TUESDAY WITH TEMPERATURES HOLDING BELOW ZERO. WIND
CHILLS THROUGH THAT TIME MAY BE IN THE HAZARDOUS LEVELS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

DTR

The office that day

Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 18, 4:18 AM CST	High Wind Watch	FGF	Clay, Norman, Wilkin	10 hr
Jan 18, 2:43 PM CST	Blizzard Warning	FGF	Kittson, Marshall, Polk	30 hr
Jan 18, 2:43 PM CST	Winter Storm Watch	FGF	Becker, Clay, Grant, Otter Tail, Wilkin	14 hr

Nearby

Blizzard Watches in North Dakota, 2013 Blizzard Watches in Minnesota, 2013 Every blizzard watch in 2013

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.