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Winter Storm Watch 3, NWS Grand Forks, ND

November 9, 20144 counties in Minnesota; Richland County, Sargent County, North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this winter storm watch at Nov 9, 2014, 3:43 AM CST for 4 counties in Minnesota; Richland County, Sargent County, North Dakota. It took effect at Nov 10, 2014, 3:00 AM CST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 9, 2014, 3:43 AM CST (09:43 UTC)
In effect from: Nov 10, 2014, 3:00 AM CST
Expired: Nov 9, 2014, 2:49 PM CST
In force
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND

Counties Grant County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:44 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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 224 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: 1955 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 89 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 241 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 386 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 winter storm 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 winter storm watch went out at Nov 9, 3:05 AM CST, 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 9, 3:05 AM CST, 38 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 9, 2:49 PM CST	Winter Storm Warning	FGF	Grant, Otter Tail, Wadena, Wilkin	25 hr
Nov 9, 2:49 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	FGF	Otter Tail, Wadena, Wilkin	22 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Watches in Minnesota, 2014 Winter Storm Watches in North Dakota, 2014 Every winter storm watch in 2014

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.