Alert archive / Minnesota / Wind Advisories in 2015
Wind Advisory 11, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this wind advisory at Jul 29, 2015, 2:53 AM CDT for 21 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Jul 29, 2015, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 87 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 29, 2015, 2:53 AM CDT (07:53 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 29, 2015, 10:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Jul 29, 2015, 11:27 AM CDT
- In force
- 87 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
All 21 counties
Benton County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Isanti County, MN, Kanabec County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Pope County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Todd County, MN, Wright County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:51 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 960 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 880 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
542 WWUS73 KMPX 290753 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 253 AM CDT WED JUL 29 2015 ...STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS DEVELOPING... .A WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL...CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA FROM 10 AM TO 5 PM THIS AFTERNOON. IN THE WAKE OF A VERY STRONG SUMMER STORM SYSTEM THAT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE CANADIAN PRAIRIES TODAY...GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS WILL DEVELOP QUICKLY THIS MORNING. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 TO 35 MPH...WITH GUSTS OVER 40 MPH WILL OCCUR IN THE ADVISORY AREA. A FEW GUSTS OF 45 TO 50 MPH WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. MNZ041>045-047>052-054>059-064>066-073-291700- /O.NEW.KMPX.WI.Y.0011.150729T1500Z-150729T2200Z/ DOUGLAS-TODD-MORRISON-MILLE LACS-KANABEC-STEVENS-POPE-STEARNS- BENTON-SHERBURNE-ISANTI-LAC QUI PARLE-SWIFT-CHIPPEWA-KANDIYOHI- MEEKER-WRIGHT-YELLOW MEDICINE-RENVILLE-MCLEOD-REDWOOD- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALEXANDRIA...LONG PRAIRIE... LITTLE FALLS...PRINCETON...MORA...MORRIS...GLENWOOD...ST. CLOUD... FOLEY...ELK RIVER...CAMBRIDGE...MADISON...BENSON...MONTEVIDEO... WILLMAR...LITCHFIELD...MONTICELLO...GRANITE FALLS...OLIVIA... HUTCHINSON...REDWOOD FALLS 253 AM CDT WED JUL 29 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. * TIMING...10 AM TO 5 PM. * WINDS...SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 TO 35 MPH...WITH GUSTS OF 40 TO 45 MPH. * IMPACTS...DRIVING MAY BECOME DIFFICULT AS WINDS BEGIN TO GUSTS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 TO 39 MPH OR GUSTS BETWEEN 45 AND 57 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ JLT
1 follow-up statement
789 WWUS73 KMPX 291627 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1127 AM CDT WED JUL 29 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... .BREEZY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TODAY...BUT WINDS WILL NOT MEET WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA. MAXIMUM GUSTS WILL GENERALLY BE 35 TO 40 MPH. MNZ041>045-047>052-054>059-064>066-073-291730- /O.CAN.KMPX.WI.Y.0011.000000T0000Z-150729T2200Z/ DOUGLAS-TODD-MORRISON-MILLE LACS-KANABEC-STEVENS-POPE-STEARNS- BENTON-SHERBURNE-ISANTI-LAC QUI PARLE-SWIFT-CHIPPEWA-KANDIYOHI- MEEKER-WRIGHT-YELLOW MEDICINE-RENVILLE-MCLEOD-REDWOOD- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALEXANDRIA...LONG PRAIRIE... LITTLE FALLS...PRINCETON...MORA...MORRIS...GLENWOOD...ST. CLOUD... FOLEY...ELK RIVER...CAMBRIDGE...MADISON...BENSON...MONTEVIDEO... WILLMAR...LITCHFIELD...MONTICELLO...GRANITE FALLS...OLIVIA... HUTCHINSON...REDWOOD FALLS 1127 AM CDT WED JUL 29 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. .BREEZY CONDITIONS ARE STILL EXPECTED TODAY...BUT WINDS WILL NOT MEET WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA. GUSTS WILL GENERALLY BE 35 TO 40 MPH. $$ JRB
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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.