Alert archive / Minnesota / Frost Advisories in 2013
Frost Advisory 7, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this frost advisory at Oct 12, 2013, 2:27 PM CDT for 19 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Oct 13, 2013, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 12, 2013, 2:27 PM CDT (19:27 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 13, 2013, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2013, 9:00 AM 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, Faribault County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Martin County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Pope County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:30 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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 915 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
580 WWUS73 KMPX 121927 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 227 PM CDT SAT OCT 12 2013 ...FROST POSSIBLE AFTER MIDNIGHT .AREAS OF FROST CAN BE EXPECTED LATE TONIGHT. CLEAR SKIES AND LIGHT WINDS WILL ALLOW TEMPERATURES TO FALL INTO THE LOWER AND MIDDLE 30S ACROSS PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL INTO SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA. A FROST ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED WEST OF A LINE FROM ALEAXANDRIA....TO HUTCHINSON AND BLUE EARTH....FROM 1 AM UNTIL 9AM SUNDAY MORNING. MNZ041-047-048-054>058-064>067-073>075-082-083-091-092-130330- /O.NEW.KMPX.FR.Y.0007.131013T0600Z-131013T1400Z/ DOUGLAS-STEVENS-POPE-LAC QUI PARLE-SWIFT-CHIPPEWA-KANDIYOHI- MEEKER-YELLOW MEDICINE-RENVILLE-MCLEOD-SIBLEY-REDWOOD-BROWN- NICOLLET-WATONWAN-BLUE EARTH-MARTIN-FARIBAULT- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALEXANDRIA...MORRIS...GLENWOOD... MADISON...BENSON...MONTEVIDEO...WILLMAR...LITCHFIELD... GRANITE FALLS...OLIVIA...HUTCHINSON...GAYLORD...REDWOOD FALLS... NEW ULM...ST. PETER...ST. JAMES...MANKATO...FAIRMONT...BLUE EARTH 227 PM CDT SAT OCT 12 2013 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM CDT SUNDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM CDT SUNDAY. * TEMPERATURE: LOWS DROPPING INTO THE LOWER AND MIDDLE 30S. * IMPACTS: AREAS OF FROST POSING A THREAT TO SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$
2 follow-up statements
486 WWUS73 KMPX 130236 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 936 PM CDT SAT OCT 12 2013 ...FROST POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT... .AREAS OF FROST CAN BE EXPECTED OVERNIGHT THRU DAYBREAK SUNDAY MORNING. CLEAR SKIES AND LIGHT WINDS WILL ALLOW TEMPERATURES TO FALL INTO THE LOWER AND MIDDLE 30S ACROSS PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL INTO SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA. A FROST ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR LOCATIONS ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM ALEXANDRIA...TO HUTCHINSON TO BLUE EARTH FROM 1 AM UNTIL 9 AM SUNDAY MORNING. MNZ041-047-048-054>058-064>067-073>075-082-083-091-092-131100- /O.CON.KMPX.FR.Y.0007.131013T0600Z-131013T1400Z/ DOUGLAS-STEVENS-POPE-LAC QUI PARLE-SWIFT-CHIPPEWA-KANDIYOHI- MEEKER-YELLOW MEDICINE-RENVILLE-MCLEOD-SIBLEY-REDWOOD-BROWN- NICOLLET-WATONWAN-BLUE EARTH-MARTIN-FARIBAULT- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALEXANDRIA...MORRIS...GLENWOOD... MADISON...BENSON...MONTEVIDEO...WILLMAR...LITCHFIELD... GRANITE FALLS...OLIVIA...HUTCHINSON...GAYLORD...REDWOOD FALLS... NEW ULM...ST. PETER...ST. JAMES...MANKATO...FAIRMONT...BLUE EARTH 936 PM CDT SAT OCT 12 2013 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM CDT SUNDAY... A FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM CDT SUNDAY. * TEMPERATURE: LOWS DROPPING INTO THE LOWER AND MIDDLE 30S. * IMPACTS: AREAS OF FROST MAY CAUSE DAMAGE TO SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$
545 WWUS73 KMPX 130723 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 223 AM CDT SUN OCT 13 2013 ...FROST EARLY THIS MORNING... .A FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH 9 AM THIS MORNING FOR LOCATIONS ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM ALEXANDRIA... TO HUTCHINSON TO BLUE EARTH. CLEAR SKIES AND LIGHT WINDS WILL ALLOW TEMPERATURES TO FALL TO THE LOWER AND MIDDLE 30S ACROSS THE ADVISORY AREA BY DAYBREAK... WITH AREAS OF FROST OCCURRING. MNZ041-047-048-054>058-064>067-073>075-082-083-091-092-131400- /O.CON.KMPX.FR.Y.0007.000000T0000Z-131013T1400Z/ DOUGLAS-STEVENS-POPE-LAC QUI PARLE-SWIFT-CHIPPEWA-KANDIYOHI- MEEKER-YELLOW MEDICINE-RENVILLE-MCLEOD-SIBLEY-REDWOOD-BROWN- NICOLLET-WATONWAN-BLUE EARTH-MARTIN-FARIBAULT- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALEXANDRIA...MORRIS...GLENWOOD... MADISON...BENSON...MONTEVIDEO...WILLMAR...LITCHFIELD... GRANITE FALLS...OLIVIA...HUTCHINSON...GAYLORD...REDWOOD FALLS... NEW ULM...ST. PETER...ST. JAMES...MANKATO...FAIRMONT...BLUE EARTH 223 AM CDT SUN OCT 13 2013 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CDT THIS MORNING... A FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CDT THIS MORNING. * TEMPERATURE: LOWS DROPPING INTO THE LOWER AND MIDDLE 30S. * IMPACTS: FROST MAY CAUSE DAMAGE TO SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$
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.