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Winter Weather Advisory 4, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this winter weather advisory at Jan 15, 2014, 3:38 AM CST for 19 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Jan 16, 2014, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 15, 2014, 3:38 AM CST (09:38 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 16, 2014, 6:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Jan 16, 2014, 6:09 PM CST
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Anoka County, MN, Benton County, MN, Carver County, MN, Chisago County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Isanti County, MN, Kanabec County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Ramsey County, MN, Rice County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Steele County, MN, Todd County, MN, Washington County, MN, Wright County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:41 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 387 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
- 905 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 93 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 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 Jan 14, 10:40 PM CST, 4 hours 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 14, 10:40 PM CST, 4 hours 58 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 15, 3:38 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Douglas, Faribault, Freeborn and 18 more | 44 hr |
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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.