Alert archive / Minnesota / Wind Advisories in 2013
Wind Advisory 4, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this wind advisory at Feb 2, 2013, 7:22 PM CST for 7 counties in Minnesota; Clay County, Dickinson County, Osceola County, Iowa. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 2, 2013, 7:22 PM CST (01:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 3, 2013, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Counties Clay County, IA, Dickinson County, IA, Osceola County, IA, Cottonwood County, MN, Jackson County, MN, Lincoln County, MN, Lyon County, MN, Murray County, MN, Nobles County, MN, Pipestone County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:23 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, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 880 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
381 WWUS73 KFSD 030122 NPWFSD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 722 PM CST SAT FEB 2 2013 IAZ002-003-014-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-030600- /O.NEW.KFSD.WI.Y.0004.130203T0122Z-130203T0600Z/ OSCEOLA-DICKINSON-CLAY-LINCOLN-LYON-MURRAY-COTTONWOOD-NOBLES- JACKSON-PIPESTONE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SIBLEY...SPIRIT LAKE...MILFORD... ARNOLDS PARK...SPENCER...TYLER...HENDRICKS...LAKE BENTON... IVANHOE...MARSHALL...SLAYTON...FULDA...WINDOM...MOUNTAIN LAKE... WORTHINGTON...JACKSON...LAKEFIELD...PIPESTONE 722 PM CST SAT FEB 2 2013 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT. * WEATHER CONDITIONS...NORTHWEST WINDS WILL GUST TO 40 TO 50 MPH BEHIND A FRONT THIS EVENING. 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
393 WWUS73 KFSD 030604 NPWFSD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1204 AM CST SUN FEB 3 2013 .NORTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO STEADILY DECREASE DURING THE PREDAWN HOURS AS WEAK HIGH PRESSURE APPROACHES THE AREA. IAZ002-003-014-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-030715- /O.EXP.KFSD.WI.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-130203T0600Z/ OSCEOLA-DICKINSON-CLAY-LINCOLN-LYON-MURRAY-COTTONWOOD-NOBLES- JACKSON-PIPESTONE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SIBLEY...SPIRIT LAKE...MILFORD... ARNOLDS PARK...SPENCER...TYLER...HENDRICKS...LAKE BENTON... IVANHOE...MARSHALL...SLAYTON...FULDA...WINDOM...MOUNTAIN LAKE... WORTHINGTON...JACKSON...LAKEFIELD...PIPESTONE 1204 AM CST SUN FEB 3 2013 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... NORTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO DECREASE STEADILY AND BECOME LIGHT IN THE MORNING. $$
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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.