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Dense Fog Advisory 5, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this dense fog advisory at Mar 9, 2013, 9:31 PM CST for 4 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 9, 2013, 9:31 PM CST (03:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 2013, 12:31 AM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Faribault County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Steele County, MN, Waseca County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 528 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 292 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this dense fog advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Twin Cities, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this dense fog advisory went out at Mar 9, 3:58 PM CST, 5 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 9, 3:58 PM CST, 5 hours 33 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 9, 12:31 PM CST, 9 hours before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1231 PM CST SAT MAR 9 2013 MNZ041>044-047>050-054>057-064-101845- DOUGLAS-TODD-MORRISON-MILLE LACS-STEVENS-POPE-STEARNS-BENTON- LAC QUI PARLE-SWIFT-CHIPPEWA-KANDIYOHI-YELLOW MEDICINE- 1231 PM CST SAT MAR 9 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA...EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A QUICK BURST OF MODERATE TO HEAVY SNOW IS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. THE HIGHEST SNOW TOTALS SHOULD RANGE BETWEEN 2 AND 4 INCHES. A WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT. PLEASE REFER TO THE WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. MNZ045-051>053-058>063-065>070-073>077-082>084-091-092-WIZ014>016- 023-101845- KANABEC-SHERBURNE-ISANTI-CHISAGO-MEEKER-WRIGHT-HENNEPIN-ANOKA- RAMSEY-WASHINGTON-RENVILLE-MCLEOD-SIBLEY-CARVER-SCOTT-DAKOTA- REDWOOD-BROWN-NICOLLET-LE SUEUR-RICE-WATONWAN-BLUE EARTH-WASECA- MARTIN-FARIBAULT-POLK-BARRON-RUSK-ST. CROIX- 1231 PM CST SAT MAR 9 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA...EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...NORTHWEST WISCONSIN AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT RAIN WILL CHANGE OVER TO LIGHT SNOW THIS EVENING. THE COMBINATION OF LIGHT SNOW AND COOLER TEMPERATURES TONIGHT COULD MAKE FOR ICY CONDITIONS BY SUNDAY MORNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. MNZ078-085-093-WIZ024>028-101845- GOODHUE-STEELE-FREEBORN-PIERCE-DUNN-PEPIN-CHIPPEWA-EAU CLAIRE- 1231 PM CST SAT MAR 9 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT RAIN WILL CHANGE OVER TO LIGHT SNOW THIS EVENING. THE COMBINATION OF LIGHT SNOW AND COOLER TEMPERATURES TONIGHT COULD MAKE FOR ICY CONDITIONS BY SUNDAY MORNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY ACCUMULATING SNOW IS POSSIBLE SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY MORNING ACROSS PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN AND SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA. AT THIS TIME THE HEAVIEST SNOW IS EXPECTED NEAR AND SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM AUSTIN...TO ROCHESTER...TO EAU CLAIRE. SEVERAL INCHES OF SNOW IS EXPECTED BUT THERE IS STILL SOME UNCERTAINTY AS TO WHERE THE NORTHERN EDGE OF THE SNOW WILL END UP. CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE FORECAST FOR UPDATES THIS WEEKEND. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 9, 3:35 PM CST, 5 hours 56 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 4:32 AM CDT | Winter Storm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn, Goodhue, Steele, Waseca | 31 hr |
| Mar 10, 4:32 AM CDT | Winter Weather Advisory | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault, Goodhue, Martin, Rice, Steele and 1 more | 29 hr |
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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.