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Winter Weather Advisory 12, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this winter weather advisory at Feb 16, 2014, 3:53 AM CST for 16 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Feb 17, 2014, 3:00 AM CST. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 16, 2014, 3:53 AM CST (09:53 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 17, 2014, 3:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 17, 2014, 12:00 PM CST
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Benton County, MN, Blue Earth County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Kanabec County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Steele County, MN, Todd County, MN, Waseca County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:57 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 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 31 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
- 525 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter weather advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Twin Cities, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this winter weather advisory went out at Feb 16, 3:50 AM CST, 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 16, 3:50 AM CST, 3 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 15, 4:31 PM CST, 11 hours 22 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 431 PM CST SAT FEB 15 2014 MNZ041>045-047>070-073>078-082>085-091>093-WIZ014>016-023>028- 162245- DOUGLAS-TODD-MORRISON-MILLE LACS-KANABEC-STEVENS-POPE-STEARNS- BENTON-SHERBURNE-ISANTI-CHISAGO-LAC QUI PARLE-SWIFT-CHIPPEWA- KANDIYOHI-MEEKER-WRIGHT-HENNEPIN-ANOKA-RAMSEY-WASHINGTON- YELLOW MEDICINE-RENVILLE-MCLEOD-SIBLEY-CARVER-SCOTT-DAKOTA- REDWOOD-BROWN-NICOLLET-LE SUEUR-RICE-GOODHUE-WATONWAN-BLUE EARTH- WASECA-STEELE-MARTIN-FARIBAULT-FREEBORN-POLK-BARRON-RUSK- ST. CROIX-PIERCE-DUNN-PEPIN-EAU CLAIRE- 431 PM CST SAT FEB 15 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MINNESOTA... AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY MODERATE TO OCCASIONALLY HEAVY SNOW IS EXPECTED LATE SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY. SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS OF 2 TO 6 INCHES APPEAR LIKELY... WITH THE HEAVIER TOTALS OVER WISCONSIN AND THE LIGHTER TOTALS NEAR THE SOUTH DAKOTA BORDER. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SNOWFALL REPORTS WOULD BE APPRECIATED MONDAY. BORGHOFF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 8:24 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Goodhue and 11 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 16, 3:53 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Goodhue, Hennepin and 7 more | 35 hr |
Nearby
Winter Weather Advisories in Minnesota, 2014Every winter weather advisory 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.