Alert archive / Minnesota / Wind Advisories in 2015
Wind Advisory 4, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this wind advisory at Mar 25, 2015, 12:43 PM CDT for 4 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 25, 2015, 12:43 PM CDT (17:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2015, 4:07 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Counties Cottonwood County, MN, Lincoln County, MN, Lyon County, MN, Murray County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 559 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
023 WWUS73 KFSD 251743 NPWFSD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1243 PM CDT WED MAR 25 2015 MNZ071-072-080-081-252300- /O.NEW.KFSD.WI.Y.0004.150325T1743Z-150325T2300Z/ LINCOLN MN-LYON MN-MURRAY-COTTONWOOD- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...TYLER...HENDRICKS...LAKE BENTON... IVANHOE...MARSHALL...SLAYTON...FULDA...WINDOM...MOUNTAIN LAKE 1243 PM CDT WED MAR 25 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * TIMING...STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS WILL BEGIN TO DECREASE LATE THIS AFTERNOON. * WEATHER CONDITIONS...NORTHWEST WINDS 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BE 31 TO 39 MPH OR GUSTS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 46 AND 57 MPH. WINDS OF THESE MAGNITUDES MAY CAUSE MINOR PROPERTY DAMAGE WITHOUT EXTRA PRECAUTIONS. MOTORISTS IN HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD USE CAUTION UNTIL THE WINDS SUBSIDE. && $$
1 follow-up statement
556 WWUS73 KFSD 252107 NPWFSD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 407 PM CDT WED MAR 25 2015 MNZ071-072-080-081-252215- /O.CAN.KFSD.WI.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-150325T2300Z/ LINCOLN MN-LYON MN-MURRAY-COTTONWOOD- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...TYLER...HENDRICKS...LAKE BENTON... IVANHOE...MARSHALL...SLAYTON...FULDA...WINDOM...MOUNTAIN LAKE 407 PM CDT WED MAR 25 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. NORTHWEST WINDS HAVE DECREASED BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA. SPEEDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH GUSTING TO 35 MPH ARE LIKELY INTO EARLY EVENING. $$
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.