Alert archive / Minnesota / Freeze Warnings in 2015
Freeze Warning 2, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this freeze warning at Oct 15, 2015, 2:45 PM CDT for 8 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Oct 16, 2015, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 15, 2015, 2:45 PM CDT (19:45 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 16, 2015, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 16, 2015, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Chippewa County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Pope County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 170 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 2306 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
335 WWUS73 KMPX 151945 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 245 PM CDT THU OCT 15 2015 ...FREEZING TEMPERATURES EXPECTED TONIGHT... .NORTHWEST WINDS WILL BRING COOL AIR ACROSS THE REGION. OVERNIGHT LOWS WILL DROP INTO THE UPPER 20S TO NEAR 30. TEMPERATURES WILL WARM INTO THE 40S ON FRIDAY. MNZ041-047-048-054>056-064-073-160345- /O.NEW.KMPX.FZ.W.0002.151016T0600Z-151016T1400Z/ DOUGLAS-STEVENS-POPE-LAC QUI PARLE-SWIFT-CHIPPEWA-YELLOW MEDICINE- REDWOOD- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALEXANDRIA...MORRIS...GLENWOOD... MADISON...BENSON...MONTEVIDEO...GRANITE FALLS...REDWOOD FALLS 245 PM CDT THU OCT 15 2015 ...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM CDT FRIDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A FREEZE WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM CDT FRIDAY. * TEMPERATURE...28 TO 32 * IMPACTS...UNPROTECTED PLANTS WILL BE KILLED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION. && $$ JRB
2 follow-up statements
844 WWUS73 KMPX 160205 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 905 PM CDT THU OCT 15 2015 ...FREEZING TEMPERATURES EXPECTED TONIGHT... .NORTHWEST WINDS WILL BRING COOL AIR ACROSS THE REGION. OVERNIGHT LOWS WILL DROP INTO THE UPPER 20S TO LOWER 30S. MNZ041-047-048-054>056-064-073-161045- /O.CON.KMPX.FZ.W.0002.151016T0600Z-151016T1400Z/ DOUGLAS-STEVENS-POPE-LAC QUI PARLE-SWIFT-CHIPPEWA-YELLOW MEDICINE- REDWOOD- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALEXANDRIA...MORRIS...GLENWOOD... MADISON...BENSON...MONTEVIDEO...GRANITE FALLS...REDWOOD FALLS 905 PM CDT THU OCT 15 2015 ...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM CDT FRIDAY... * TEMPERATURES...28 TO 32. * IMPACTS...UNPROTECTED PLANTS WILL BE KILLED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION. && $$ BORGHOFF
636 WWUS73 KMPX 160833 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 333 AM CDT FRI OCT 16 2015 ...FREEZING TEMPERATURES EXPECTED TONIGHT... .THE COLDEST NIGHT OF THE FALL IS EXPECTED TONIGHT WITH OVERNIGHT LOWS FALLING INTO THE 20S AND LOWER 30S. MNZ049-051-057>063-065>070-074>078-082>085-091>093-WIZ024-026- 161645- /O.NEW.KMPX.FZ.W.0003.151017T0300Z-151017T1400Z/ STEARNS-SHERBURNE-KANDIYOHI-MEEKER-WRIGHT-HENNEPIN-ANOKA-RAMSEY- WASHINGTON-RENVILLE-MCLEOD-SIBLEY-CARVER-SCOTT-DAKOTA-BROWN- NICOLLET-LE SUEUR-RICE-GOODHUE-WATONWAN-BLUE EARTH-WASECA-STEELE- MARTIN-FARIBAULT-FREEBORN-PIERCE-PEPIN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ST. CLOUD...ELK RIVER...WILLMAR... LITCHFIELD...MONTICELLO...MINNEAPOLIS...BLAINE...ST. PAUL... STILLWATER...OLIVIA...HUTCHINSON...GAYLORD...CHASKA...SHAKOPEE... HASTINGS...NEW ULM...ST. PETER...LE SUEUR...FARIBAULT... RED WING...ST. JAMES...MANKATO...WASECA...OWATONNA...FAIRMONT... BLUE EARTH...ALBERT LEA...PRESCOTT...DURAND 333 AM CDT FRI OCT 16 2015 ...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO 9 AM CDT SATURDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A FREEZE WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO 9 AM CDT SATURDAY. * TEMPERATURE...20 TO 30. * IMPACTS...UNPROTECTED PLANTS WILL BE KILLED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION. && $$ MNZ041-047-048-054>056-064-073-161400- /O.CON.KMPX.FZ.W.0002.000000T0000Z-151016T1400Z/ DOUGLAS-STEVENS-POPE-LAC QUI PARLE-SWIFT-CHIPPEWA-YELLOW MEDICINE- REDWOOD- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALEXANDRIA...MORRIS...GLENWOOD... MADISON...BENSON...MONTEVIDEO...GRANITE FALLS...REDWOOD FALLS 333 AM CDT FRI OCT 16 2015 ...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CDT THIS MORNING... * TEMPERATURES...28 TO 32. * IMPACTS...UNPROTECTED PLANTS WILL BE KILLED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 15, 4:04 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Faribault, Freeborn, Lac qui Parle, Martin and 4 more | 15 hr |
Nearby
Freeze Warnings in Minnesota, 2015Every freeze warning 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.