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Frost Advisory 2, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this frost advisory at May 15, 2014, 3:27 PM CDT for 21 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at May 16, 2014, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 2014, 3:27 PM CDT (20:27 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 16, 2014, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- May 16, 2014, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
All 21 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, Stearns County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Todd County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 1084 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
968 WWUS73 KMPX 152027 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 327 PM CDT THU MAY 15 2014 ...AREAS OF FROST DEVELOPING TONIGHT... .AFTER A CHILLY DAY...SKIES ARE EXPECTED TO CLEAR THIS EVENING WITH LOW TEMPERATURES FALLING INTO THE LOWER 30S OVERNIGHT. WITH LIGHT WINDS...AREAS OF FROST ARE LIKELY TO DEVELOP WHICH COULD POSE AN ISSUE FOR TENDER VEGETATION. MNZ041-042-047>049-054>058-064>067-073>075-082-083-091-092-160430- /O.NEW.KMPX.FR.Y.0002.140516T0600Z-140516T1200Z/ DOUGLAS-TODD-STEVENS-POPE-STEARNS-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...LONG PRAIRIE...MORRIS... GLENWOOD...ST. CLOUD...MADISON...BENSON...MONTEVIDEO...WILLMAR... LITCHFIELD...GRANITE FALLS...OLIVIA...HUTCHINSON...GAYLORD... REDWOOD FALLS...NEW ULM...ST. PETER...ST. JAMES...MANKATO... FAIRMONT...BLUE EARTH 327 PM CDT THU MAY 15 2014 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 7 AM CDT FRIDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 7 AM CDT FRIDAY. * LOW TEMPERATURES...LOWER TO MIDDLE 30S. * IMPACTS...UNPROTECTED TENDER VEGETATION MAY BE DAMAGED WITH THE FROST. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$ BORGHOFF
1 follow-up statement
314 WWUS73 KMPX 160438 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1138 PM CDT THU MAY 15 2014 ...AREAS OF FROST DEVELOPING EARLY THIS MORNING... .CLEARING SKIES ARE EXPECTED EARLY THIS MORNING WITH TEMPERATURES FALLING INTO THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 30S. DUE TO LIGHT WINDS...AREAS OF FROST ARE LIKELY TO DEVELOP WHICH COULD POSE A PROBLEM FOR TENDER VEGETATION. MNZ041-042-047>049-054>058-064>067-073>075-082-083-091-092-161200- /O.CON.KMPX.FR.Y.0002.140516T0600Z-140516T1200Z/ DOUGLAS-TODD-STEVENS-POPE-STEARNS-LAC QUI PARLE-SWIFT-CHIPPEWA- KANDIYOHI-MEEKER-YELLOW MEDICINE-RENVILLE-MCLEOD-SIBLEY-REDWOOD- BROWN-NICOLLET-WATONWAN-BLUE EARTH-MARTIN-FARIBAULT- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALEXANDRIA...LONG PRAIRIE...MORRIS... GLENWOOD...ST. CLOUD...MADISON...BENSON...MONTEVIDEO...WILLMAR... LITCHFIELD...GRANITE FALLS...OLIVIA...HUTCHINSON...GAYLORD... REDWOOD FALLS...NEW ULM...ST. PETER...ST. JAMES...MANKATO... FAIRMONT...BLUE EARTH 1138 PM CDT THU MAY 15 2014 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM CDT FRIDAY... A FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM CDT FRIDAY. * LOW TEMPERATURES...LOWER TO MIDDLE 30S. * IMPACTS...UNPROTECTED TENDER VEGETATION MAY BE DAMAGED WITH THE FROST. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$
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.