Alert archive / North Dakota / Wind Advisories in 2015
Wind Advisory 6, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this wind advisory at Apr 2, 2015, 10:32 AM CDT for 13 counties in North Dakota; 8 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Apr 2, 2015, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 2, 2015, 10:32 AM CDT (15:32 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 2, 2015, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2015, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
All 21 counties
Becker County, MN, Clay County, MN, Grant County, MN, Mahnomen County, MN, Norman County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Barnes County, ND, Benson County, ND, Cass County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Griggs County, ND, Nelson County, ND, Ramsey County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Steele County, ND, Towner County, ND, Traill County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:29 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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 262 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
- 2423 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
514 WWUS73 KFGF 021532 NPWFGF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 1032 AM CDT THU APR 2 2015 ...WINDY CONDITIONS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON... .WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE LATE THIS MORNING AND REACH ADVISORY CONDITIONS BY NOONTIME AS A FRONTAL SYSTEM DROPS INTO NORTH DAKOTA. SURFACE WINDS WILL SHIFT FROM THE WEST TO THE NORTHWEST THROUGHOUT THE DAY...WITH THE STRONGEST WINDS AHEAD OF THE WIND SHIFT...FROM THE WEST AT 30 MPH GUSTING TO 40 MPH. THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL BE ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE INTERSTATE 94 CORRIDOR IN THE MID AFTERNOON PERIOD. MNZ002-003-022-027>032-040-NDZ006-014-015-024-026-028>030-038-039- 049-052-053-030000- /O.NEW.KFGF.WI.Y.0006.150402T1700Z-150403T0000Z/ NORMAN-CLAY-MAHNOMEN-WEST BECKER-EAST BECKER-WILKIN- WEST OTTER TAIL-EAST OTTER TAIL-WADENA-GRANT-TOWNER-BENSON-RAMSEY- EDDY-NELSON-GRIGGS-STEELE-TRAILL-BARNES-CASS-RANSOM-SARGENT- RICHLAND- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HALSTAD...MOORHEAD...MAHNOMEN... DETROIT LAKES...WOLF LAKE...BRECKENRIDGE...FERGUS FALLS... NEW YORK MILLS...WADENA...ELBOW LAKE...CANDO...MADDOCK...LEEDS... DEVILS LAKE...NEW ROCKFORD...LAKOTA...COOPERSTOWN...FINLEY... MAYVILLE...VALLEY CITY...FARGO...LISBON...GWINNER...WAHPETON 1032 AM CDT THU APR 2 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * TIMING...NOON TO 7 PM CDT * WINDS...WESTERLY WINDS AROUND 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH * IMPACTS...WAVES OF 4 TO 6 FEET MAY BE GENERATED IN THE DEVILS LAKE BASIN AND RESULT IN ROADBED EROSION IN SUSCEPTIBLE AREAS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 MPH OR FREQUENT GUSTS TO 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ SPEICHER
3 follow-up statements
456 WWUS73 KFGF 022036 NPWFGF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 336 PM CDT THU APR 2 2015 ...WINDY CONDITIONS TO CONTINUE THROUGH EARLY EVENING... .STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON IN TO THE EARLY EVENING AS A COLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY TRANSITS THE AREA. THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL BE FROM THE WEST SOUTH OF THE COLD FRONT...GENERALLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE INTERSTATE 94 CORRIDOR. WINDS OF 54 MPH HAVE BEEN RECORDED AT FARGO. WINDS BEHIND THE FRONT WILL ABRUPTLY CHANGE TO THE NORTH TO NORTHWEST AND WILL BE IN THE 20 TO 30 MPH RANGE WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH...BUT ONLY FOR BRIEF PERIODS OF TIME. WINDS WILL SUBSIDE BY MID EVENING. MNZ002-003-022-027>032-040-NDZ006-014-015-024-026-028>030-038-039- 049-052-053-030000- /O.CON.KFGF.WI.Y.0006.000000T0000Z-150403T0000Z/ NORMAN-CLAY-MAHNOMEN-WEST BECKER-EAST BECKER-WILKIN- WEST OTTER TAIL-EAST OTTER TAIL-WADENA-GRANT-TOWNER-BENSON-RAMSEY- EDDY-NELSON-GRIGGS-STEELE-TRAILL-BARNES-CASS-RANSOM-SARGENT- RICHLAND- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HALSTAD...MOORHEAD...MAHNOMEN... DETROIT LAKES...WOLF LAKE...BRECKENRIDGE...FERGUS FALLS... NEW YORK MILLS...WADENA...ELBOW LAKE...CANDO...MADDOCK...LEEDS... DEVILS LAKE...NEW ROCKFORD...LAKOTA...COOPERSTOWN...FINLEY... MAYVILLE...VALLEY CITY...FARGO...LISBON...GWINNER...WAHPETON 336 PM CDT THU APR 2 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... * TIMING...THROUGH 7 PM CDT * WINDS...WESTERLY WINDS AROUND 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 55 MPH * IMPACTS...WAVES OF 4 TO 6 FEET MAY BE GENERATED IN THE DEVILS LAKE BASIN AND RESULT IN ROADBED EROSION IN SUSCEPTIBLE AREAS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 MPH OR FREQUENT GUSTS TO 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ SPEICHER
605 WWUS73 KFGF 022037 AAA NPWFGF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 337 PM CDT THU APR 2 2015 ...WINDY CONDITIONS TO CONTINUE THROUGH EARLY EVENING... .STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON IN TO THE EARLY EVENING AS A COLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY TRANSITS THE AREA. THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL BE FROM THE WEST SOUTH OF THE COLD FRONT... GENERALLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE INTERSTATE 94 CORRIDOR. WINDS OF 54 MPH HAVE BEEN RECORDED AT FARGO. WINDS BEHIND THE FRONT WILL ABRUPTLY CHANGE TO THE NORTH TO NORTHWEST AND WILL BE IN THE 20 TO 30 MPH RANGE WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH...BUT ONLY FOR BRIEF PERIODS OF TIME. WINDS WILL SUBSIDE BY MID EVENING. MNZ002-003-022-027>032-040-NDZ006-014-015-024-026-028>030-038-039- 049-052-053-030000- /O.CON.KFGF.WI.Y.0006.000000T0000Z-150403T0000Z/ NORMAN-CLAY-MAHNOMEN-WEST BECKER-EAST BECKER-WILKIN- WEST OTTER TAIL-EAST OTTER TAIL-WADENA-GRANT-TOWNER-BENSON-RAMSEY- EDDY-NELSON-GRIGGS-STEELE-TRAILL-BARNES-CASS-RANSOM-SARGENT- RICHLAND- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HALSTAD...MOORHEAD...MAHNOMEN... DETROIT LAKES...WOLF LAKE...BRECKENRIDGE...FERGUS FALLS... NEW YORK MILLS...WADENA...ELBOW LAKE...CANDO...MADDOCK...LEEDS... DEVILS LAKE...NEW ROCKFORD...LAKOTA...COOPERSTOWN...FINLEY... MAYVILLE...VALLEY CITY...FARGO...LISBON...GWINNER...WAHPETON 337 PM CDT THU APR 2 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... * TIMING...THROUGH 7 PM CDT * WINDS...WESTERLY WINDS AROUND 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 55 MPH PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 MPH OR FREQUENT GUSTS TO 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ SPEICHER
426 WWUS73 KFGF 022340 NPWFGF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 640 PM CDT THU APR 2 2015 MNZ002-003-022-027>032-040-NDZ006-014-015-024-026-028>030-038-039- 049-052-053-030045- /O.EXP.KFGF.WI.Y.0006.000000T0000Z-150403T0000Z/ NORMAN-CLAY-MAHNOMEN-WEST BECKER-EAST BECKER-WILKIN- WEST OTTER TAIL-EAST OTTER TAIL-WADENA-GRANT-TOWNER-BENSON-RAMSEY- EDDY-NELSON-GRIGGS-STEELE-TRAILL-BARNES-CASS-RANSOM-SARGENT- RICHLAND- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HALSTAD...MOORHEAD...MAHNOMEN... DETROIT LAKES...WOLF LAKE...BRECKENRIDGE...FERGUS FALLS... NEW YORK MILLS...WADENA...ELBOW LAKE...CANDO...MADDOCK...LEEDS... DEVILS LAKE...NEW ROCKFORD...LAKOTA...COOPERSTOWN...FINLEY... MAYVILLE...VALLEY CITY...FARGO...LISBON...GWINNER...WAHPETON 640 PM CDT THU APR 2 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... WIND SPEEDS WILL CONTINUE TO SLOWLY DIMINISH THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 4:05 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FGF | Barnes, Cass, Ransom, Richland, Sargent | 15 hr |
Nearby
Wind Advisories in North Dakota, 2015Wind Advisories in Minnesota, 2015Every wind advisory in 2015
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.