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Winter Weather Advisory 19, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this winter weather advisory at Mar 17, 2014, 3:54 PM CDT for 27 counties in Minnesota; 7 counties in Wisconsin. It took effect at Mar 18, 2014, 4:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 17, 2014, 3:54 PM CDT (20:54 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 18, 2014, 4:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2014, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
All 34 counties
Anoka County, MN, Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Carver County, MN, Chisago County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Isanti County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Martin County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Ramsey County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Rice County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Steele County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Washington County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Wright County, MN, Barron County, WI, Chippewa County, WI, Dunn County, WI, Pierce County, WI, Polk County, WI, Rusk County, WI, Saint Croix County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:53 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 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 393 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
- 1382 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 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 Mar 17, 12:27 PM CDT, 3 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 17, 12:27 PM CDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 4:25 AM CDT | Winter Storm Watch | MPX | Anoka, Brown, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Hennepin and 8 more | 11 hr |
| Mar 17, 4:25 AM CDT | Winter Storm Warning | MPX | Benton, Chippewa, Douglas, Isanti, Kanabec, Kandiyohi and 15 more | 40 hr |
Nearby
Winter Weather Advisories in Minnesota, 2014Winter Weather Advisories in Wisconsin, 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.