Alert archive / Minnesota / Freeze Warnings in 2014
Freeze Warning 1, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this freeze warning at May 14, 2014, 4:22 PM CDT for 8 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at May 15, 2014, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 2014, 4:22 PM CDT (21:22 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 15, 2014, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- May 15, 2014, 3:13 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Chippewa County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Pope County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Todd County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 174 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 1745 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -56 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
881 WWUS73 KMPX 142122 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 422 PM CDT WED MAY 14 2014 ...FREEZE WARNING LATE TONIGHT FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... .COLD TEMPERATURES WILL PERSIST TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY IN PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...WHERE TEMPERATURES WILL DROP BELOW FREEZING LATE TONIGHT. AREAS ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM STAPLES TO GLENWOOD...TO GRANITE FALLS SHOULD HAVE FREEZING TEMPERATURES DURING THE LATE NIGHT HOURS...AND A FREEZE WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED. BE SURE TO BRING IN ANY TENDER VEGETATION. MNZ041-042-047-048-054>056-064-150530- /O.NEW.KMPX.FZ.W.0001.140515T0600Z-140515T1300Z/ DOUGLAS-TODD-STEVENS-POPE-LAC QUI PARLE-SWIFT-CHIPPEWA- YELLOW MEDICINE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALEXANDRIA...LONG PRAIRIE...MORRIS... GLENWOOD...MADISON...BENSON...MONTEVIDEO...GRANITE FALLS 422 PM CDT WED MAY 14 2014 ...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 8 AM CDT THURSDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A FREEZE WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 8 AM CDT THURSDAY. * WEATHER CONDITIONS...TEMPERATURES WILL DROP TO 30 TO 32 DEGREES LATE TONIGHT. WINDS WILL REMAIN AROUND 5 TO 7 MPH. * IMPACTS...TENDER VEGETATION WILL BE SUSCEPTIBLE TO THE COLD WEATHER. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION. && $$
2 follow-up statements
770 WWUS73 KMPX 150309 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1009 PM CDT WED MAY 14 2014 ...FREEZE WARNING LATE TONIGHT FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... .COLD TEMPERATURES WILL PERSIST TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY IN PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA WHERE LOWS WILL DROP BELOW FREEZING. AREAS ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM STAPLES TO GLENWOOD...TO GRANITE FALLS SHOULD HAVE FREEZING TEMPERATURES DURING THE LATE NIGHT HOURS...AND A FREEZE WARNING CONTINUES. BE SURE TO BRING IN ANY TENDER VEGETATION. MNZ041-042-047-048-054>056-064-151300- /O.CON.KMPX.FZ.W.0001.140515T0600Z-140515T1300Z/ DOUGLAS-TODD-STEVENS-POPE-LAC QUI PARLE-SWIFT-CHIPPEWA- YELLOW MEDICINE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALEXANDRIA...LONG PRAIRIE...MORRIS... GLENWOOD...MADISON...BENSON...MONTEVIDEO...GRANITE FALLS 1009 PM CDT WED MAY 14 2014 ...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM CDT THURSDAY... A FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM CDT THURSDAY. * WEATHER CONDITIONS...TEMPERATURES WILL DROP TO 30 TO 32 DEGREES LATE TONIGHT. WINDS WILL REMAIN AROUND 5 TO 7 MPH. * IMPACTS...TENDER VEGETATION WILL BE SUSCEPTIBLE TO THE COLD WEATHER. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION. && $$ BORGHOFF
800 WWUS73 KMPX 150813 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 313 AM CDT THU MAY 15 2014 MNZ041-042-047-048-054>056-064-150915- /O.CAN.KMPX.FZ.W.0001.000000T0000Z-140515T1300Z/ DOUGLAS-TODD-STEVENS-POPE-LAC QUI PARLE-SWIFT-CHIPPEWA- YELLOW MEDICINE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALEXANDRIA...LONG PRAIRIE...MORRIS... GLENWOOD...MADISON...BENSON...MONTEVIDEO...GRANITE FALLS 313 AM CDT THU MAY 15 2014 ...FREEZE WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS CANCELLED THE FREEZE WARNING. $$
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.