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Frost Advisory 9, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this frost advisory at Oct 6, 2015, 2:58 PM CDT for 5 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Oct 7, 2015, 12:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 6, 2015, 2:58 PM CDT (19:58 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 7, 2015, 12:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 7, 2015, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Douglas County, MN, Kanabec County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Todd County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:03 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 1726 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
352 WWUS73 KMPX 061958 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 258 PM CDT TUE OCT 6 2015 ...FROST EXPECTED IN PARTS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA LATE TONIGHT THROUGH EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING... .A FROST ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA LATE TONIGHT THROUGH EARLY TOMORROW MORNING. UNDER CLEAR SKIES...TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO FALL INTO THE MID 30S IN THAT AREA. MNZ041>045-070400- /O.NEW.KMPX.FR.Y.0009.151007T0500Z-151007T1300Z/ DOUGLAS-TODD-MORRISON-MILLE LACS-KANABEC- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALEXANDRIA...LONG PRAIRIE... LITTLE FALLS...PRINCETON...MORA 258 PM CDT TUE OCT 6 2015 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 8 AM CDT WEDNESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 8 AM CDT WEDNESDAY. * TEMPERATURE...33 TO 37 DEGREES. * IMPACTS...OUTDOOR PLANTS COULD BE DAMAGED OR KILLED IF NOT PROTECTED OR BROUGHT INDOORS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$
3 follow-up statements
470 WWUS73 KMPX 070347 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1047 PM CDT TUE OCT 6 2015 ...FROST EXPECTED IN PARTS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA LATE TONIGHT THROUGH EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING... .A FROST ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA LATE TONIGHT THROUGH EARLY TOMORROW MORNING. UNDER CLEAR SKIES... TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO FALL INTO THE MID 30S IN THAT AREA. MNZ041>045-071200- /O.CON.KMPX.FR.Y.0009.151007T0500Z-151007T1300Z/ DOUGLAS-TODD-MORRISON-MILLE LACS-KANABEC- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALEXANDRIA...LONG PRAIRIE... LITTLE FALLS...PRINCETON...MORA 1047 PM CDT TUE OCT 6 2015 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM CDT WEDNESDAY... * TEMPERATURE...33 TO 37 DEGREES. * IMPACTS...OUTDOOR PLANTS COULD BE DAMAGED OR KILLED IF NOT PROTECTED OR BROUGHT INDOORS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$
689 WWUS73 KMPX 070826 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 326 AM CDT WED OCT 7 2015 ...FROST EXPECTED IN PARTS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA THIS MORNING... .A FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA THROUGH 8 AM THIS MORNING. UNDER CLEAR SKIES...TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO HOLD IN THE 30S UNTIL AFTER SUNRISE. MNZ041>045-071300- /O.CON.KMPX.FR.Y.0009.000000T0000Z-151007T1300Z/ DOUGLAS-TODD-MORRISON-MILLE LACS-KANABEC- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALEXANDRIA...LONG PRAIRIE... LITTLE FALLS...PRINCETON...MORA 326 AM CDT WED OCT 7 2015 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM CDT THIS MORNING... * TEMPERATURE...33 TO 37 DEGREES. * IMPACTS...OUTDOOR PLANTS COULD BE DAMAGED OR KILLED IF NOT PROTECTED OR BROUGHT INDOORS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$ JLT
113 WWUS73 KMPX 071258 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 758 AM CDT WED OCT 7 2015 ...FROST ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 8 AM CDT THIS MORNING... .TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE TO RISE AS THE MORNING PROGRESSES UNDER MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES. THIS WILL END ANY LINGERING FROST THREAT THIS MORNING. THEREFORE...THE FROST ADVISORY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. MNZ041>045-071400- /O.EXP.KMPX.FR.Y.0009.000000T0000Z-151007T1300Z/ DOUGLAS-TODD-MORRISON-MILLE LACS-KANABEC- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALEXANDRIA...LONG PRAIRIE... LITTLE FALLS...PRINCETON...MORA 758 AM CDT WED OCT 7 2015 ...FROST ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 8 AM CDT THIS MORNING... TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE TO RISE AS THE MORNING PROGRESSES UNDER MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES. THIS WILL END ANY LINGERING FROST THREAT THIS MORNING. THEREFORE...THE FROST ADVISORY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$
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.