Alert archive / Minnesota / Frost Advisories in 2015
Frost Advisory 4, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this frost advisory at May 30, 2015, 2:35 PM CDT for 7 counties in Wisconsin; 11 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at May 31, 2015, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 30, 2015, 2:35 PM CDT (19:35 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 31, 2015, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- May 31, 2015, 7:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Anoka County, MN, Benton County, MN, Chisago County, MN, Isanti County, MN, Kanabec County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Todd County, MN, Washington County, MN, Barron County, WI, Chippewa County, WI, Dunn County, WI, Eau Claire County, WI, Polk County, WI, Rusk County, WI, Saint Croix County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:39 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 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 1012 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -65 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
895 WWUS73 KMPX 301935 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 235 PM CDT SAT MAY 30 2015 ...FROST ADVISORY FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN LATE TONIGHT... .A FROST ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FROM 1 AM UNTIL 8 AM SUNDAY MORNING FOR LOCATIONS MAINLY ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 94 IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. AREAS OF FROST ARE LIKELY AS LIGHT WIND AND TEMPERATURES IN THE MID 30S PROMOTE FROST...DEVELOPING AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE OUTDOOR VEGETATION MAY BE DAMAGED IF PROPER PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN. MNZ042>045-049>053-WIZ014>016-023-025-027-310345- /O.NEW.KMPX.FR.Y.0004.150531T0600Z-150531T1300Z/ TODD-MORRISON-MILLE LACS-KANABEC-STEARNS-BENTON-SHERBURNE-ISANTI- CHISAGO-POLK-BARRON-RUSK-ST. CROIX-DUNN-CHIPPEWA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LONG PRAIRIE...LITTLE FALLS... PRINCETON...MORA...ST. CLOUD...FOLEY...ELK RIVER...CAMBRIDGE... CENTER CITY...OSCEOLA...RICE LAKE...LADYSMITH...HUDSON... MENOMONIE...CHIPPEWA FALLS 235 PM CDT SAT MAY 30 2015 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 8 AM CDT SUNDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 8 AM CDT SUNDAY. * TEMPERATURE...LOWS BETWEEN 32 AND 36. * IMPACTS...TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE OUTDOOR VEGETATION MAY BE DAMAGED OR KILLED IF PROPER PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$
3 follow-up statements
167 WWUS73 KMPX 310157 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 857 PM CDT SAT MAY 30 2015 ...FROST ADVISORY FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN LATE TONIGHT... .A FROST ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FROM 1 AM UNTIL 8 AM SUNDAY MORNING FOR LOCATIONS MAINLY ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 94 IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. AREAS OF FROST ARE LIKELY AS LIGHT WIND AND TEMPERATURES IN THE MID 30S PROMOTE FROST...DEVELOPING AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE OUTDOOR VEGETATION MAY BE DAMAGED IF PROPER PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN. MNZ061-063-WIZ028-311000- /O.EXA.KMPX.FR.Y.0004.150531T0600Z-150531T1300Z/ ANOKA-WASHINGTON-EAU CLAIRE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BLAINE...STILLWATER...EAU CLAIRE 857 PM CDT SAT MAY 30 2015 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 8 AM CDT SUNDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 8 AM CDT SUNDAY. * TEMPERATURE...LOWS BETWEEN 32 AND 36. * IMPACTS...TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE OUTDOOR VEGETATION MAY BE DAMAGED OR KILLED IF PROPER PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$ MNZ042>045-049>053-WIZ014>016-023-025-027-311000- /O.CON.KMPX.FR.Y.0004.150531T0600Z-150531T1300Z/ TODD-MORRISON-MILLE LACS-KANABEC-STEARNS-BENTON-SHERBURNE-ISANTI- CHISAGO-POLK-BARRON-RUSK-ST. CROIX-DUNN-CHIPPEWA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LONG PRAIRIE...LITTLE FALLS... PRINCETON...MORA...ST. CLOUD...FOLEY...ELK RIVER...CAMBRIDGE... CENTER CITY...OSCEOLA...RICE LAKE...LADYSMITH...HUDSON... MENOMONIE...CHIPPEWA FALLS 857 PM CDT SAT MAY 30 2015 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 8 AM CDT SUNDAY... * TEMPERATURE...LOWS BETWEEN 32 AND 36. * IMPACTS...TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE OUTDOOR VEGETATION MAY BE DAMAGED OR KILLED IF PROPER PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$
135 WWUS73 KMPX 310845 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 345 AM CDT SUN MAY 31 2015 ...PATCHY FROST FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN EARLY THIS MORNING... .A FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM THIS MORNING FOR LOCATIONS MAINLY ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 94 IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. MNZ042>045-049>053-061-063-WIZ014>016-023-025-027-028-311300- /O.CON.KMPX.FR.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-150531T1300Z/ TODD-MORRISON-MILLE LACS-KANABEC-STEARNS-BENTON-SHERBURNE-ISANTI- CHISAGO-ANOKA-WASHINGTON-POLK-BARRON-RUSK-ST. CROIX-DUNN-CHIPPEWA- EAU CLAIRE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LONG PRAIRIE...LITTLE FALLS... PRINCETON...MORA...ST. CLOUD...FOLEY...ELK RIVER...CAMBRIDGE... CENTER CITY...BLAINE...STILLWATER...OSCEOLA...RICE LAKE... LADYSMITH...HUDSON...MENOMONIE...CHIPPEWA FALLS...EAU CLAIRE 345 AM CDT SUN MAY 31 2015 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM CDT THIS MORNING... * TEMPERATURE...LOWS BETWEEN 32 AND 38. * IMPACTS...TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE OUTDOOR VEGETATION MAY BE DAMAGED OR KILLED IF PROPER PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$
962 WWUS73 KMPX 311215 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 715 AM CDT SUN MAY 31 2015 ...TEMPERATURES WARMING QUICKLY... .THE FROST ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. MNZ042>045-049>053-061-063-WIZ014>016-023-025-027-028-311315- /O.CAN.KMPX.FR.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-150531T1300Z/ TODD-MORRISON-MILLE LACS-KANABEC-STEARNS-BENTON-SHERBURNE-ISANTI- CHISAGO-ANOKA-WASHINGTON-POLK-BARRON-RUSK-ST. CROIX-DUNN-CHIPPEWA- EAU CLAIRE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LONG PRAIRIE...LITTLE FALLS... PRINCETON...MORA...ST. CLOUD...FOLEY...ELK RIVER...CAMBRIDGE... CENTER CITY...BLAINE...STILLWATER...OSCEOLA...RICE LAKE... LADYSMITH...HUDSON...MENOMONIE...CHIPPEWA FALLS...EAU CLAIRE 715 AM CDT SUN MAY 31 2015 ...FROST ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS CANCELLED THE FROST ADVISORY. $$ BORGHOFF
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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.