Alert archive / Minnesota / Freeze Warnings in 2015
Freeze Warning 3, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this freeze warning at Oct 16, 2015, 3:33 AM CDT for 27 counties in Minnesota; Pepin County, Pierce County, Wisconsin. It took effect at Oct 16, 2015, 10:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 11 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 16, 2015, 3:33 AM CDT (08:33 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 16, 2015, 10:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 17, 2015, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
All 29 counties
Anoka County, MN, Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Carver County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Martin County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Ramsey County, MN, Renville County, MN, Rice County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Steele County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Washington County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Wright County, MN, Pepin County, WI, Pierce County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:34 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
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 32 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
- 2066 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 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.
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. && $$ MNZ041-047-048-054>056-064-073-161400- /O.CON.KMPX.FZ.W.0002.000000T0000Z-151016T1400Z/ DOUGLAS-STEVENS-POPE-LAC QUI PARLE-SWIFT-CHIPPEWA-YELLOW MEDICINE- REDWOOD- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALEXANDRIA...MORRIS...GLENWOOD... MADISON...BENSON...MONTEVIDEO...GRANITE FALLS...REDWOOD FALLS 333 AM CDT FRI OCT 16 2015 ...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CDT THIS MORNING... * TEMPERATURES...28 TO 32. * IMPACTS...UNPROTECTED PLANTS WILL BE KILLED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION. && $$
3 follow-up statements
172 WWUS73 KMPX 161912 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 212 PM 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- 170315- /O.CON.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 212 PM CDT FRI OCT 16 2015 ...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS 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. && $$
505 WWUS73 KMPX 170031 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 731 PM CDT FRI OCT 16 2015 ...FREEZING TEMPERATURES EXPECTED TONIGHT... .THE COLDEST NIGHT OF THE SEASON IS EXPECTED TONIGHT WITH OVERNIGHT LOWS FALLING INTO THE 20S. THIS WILL BE THE FINAL FROST OR FREEZE HEADLINE FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE SEASON. MNZ049-051-057>063-065>070-074>078-082>085-091>093-WIZ024-026- 171100- /O.CON.KMPX.FZ.W.0003.151017T0300Z-151017T1400Z/ STEARNS-SHERBURNE-KANDIYOHI-MEEKER-WRIGHT-HENNEPIN-ANOKA-RAMSEY- WASHINGTON-RENVILLE-MCLEOD-SIBLEY-CARVER-SCOTT-DAKOTA-BROWN- NICOLLET-LE SUEUR-RICE-GOODHUE-WATONWAN-BLUE EARTH-WASECA-STEELE- MARTIN-FARIBAULT-FREEBORN-PIERCE-PEPIN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ST. CLOUD...ELK RIVER...WILLMAR... LITCHFIELD...MONTICELLO...MINNEAPOLIS...BLAINE...ST. PAUL... STILLWATER...OLIVIA...HUTCHINSON...GAYLORD...CHASKA...SHAKOPEE... HASTINGS...NEW ULM...ST. PETER...LE SUEUR...FARIBAULT... RED WING...ST. JAMES...MANKATO...WASECA...OWATONNA...FAIRMONT... BLUE EARTH...ALBERT LEA...PRESCOTT...DURAND 731 PM CDT FRI OCT 16 2015 ...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CDT SATURDAY... * TEMPERATURES...25 TO 30. * IMPACTS...UNPROTECTED PLANTS WILL BE KILLED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION. && $$ BORGHOFF
397 WWUS73 KMPX 170847 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 347 AM CDT SAT OCT 17 2015 ...SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES THIS MORNING... .TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN IN THE 20S TO LOWER 30S THROUGH MID MORNING. THIS WILL BE THE FINAL FROST OR FREEZE HEADLINE FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE SEASON. MNZ049-051-057>063-065>070-074>078-082>085-091>093-WIZ024-026- 171400- /O.CON.KMPX.FZ.W.0003.000000T0000Z-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 347 AM CDT SAT OCT 17 2015 ...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CDT THIS MORNING... * TEMPERATURES...25 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. && $$
Nearby
Freeze Warnings in Minnesota, 2015Freeze Warnings in Wisconsin, 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.