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Winter Weather Advisory 17, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this winter weather advisory at Mar 17, 2013, 3:28 AM CDT for 42 counties in Minnesota; 9 counties in Wisconsin. It took effect at Mar 18, 2013, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 33 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 17, 2013, 3:28 AM CDT (08:28 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 18, 2013, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2013, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 33 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
All 51 counties
Anoka County, MN, Benton County, MN, Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Carver County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Chisago County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Isanti County, MN, Kanabec County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Martin County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Pope County, MN, Ramsey County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Rice County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Steele County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Todd County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Washington County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Wright County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN, Barron County, WI, Chippewa County, WI, Dunn County, WI, Eau Claire County, WI, Pepin County, WI, Pierce County, WI, Polk County, WI, Rusk County, WI, Saint Croix County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 363 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
- 958 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 8:45 PM CDT | Blizzard Watch | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Douglas, Faribault, Freeborn and 20 more | 16 hr |
| Mar 17, 12:32 PM CDT | Blizzard Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Douglas, Faribault and 23 more | 31 hr |
Nearby
Winter Weather Advisories in Minnesota, 2013Winter Weather Advisories in Wisconsin, 2013Every winter weather advisory 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.