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Winter Weather Advisory 3, NWS Twin Cities, MN

January 5, 201513 counties in Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this winter weather advisory at Jan 5, 2015, 3:41 AM CST for 13 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Jan 5, 2015, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 5, 2015, 3:41 AM CST (09:41 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 5, 2015, 12:00 PM CST
Expired
Jan 5, 2015, 9:27 PM CST
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN

Counties Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Rice County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Steele County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter weather advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Twin Cities, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this winter weather advisory went out at Jan 5, 3:32 AM CST, 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 5, 3:32 AM CST, 9 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 4, 12:13 PM CST, 15 hours 28 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
1213 PM CST SUN JAN 4 2015

MNZ041>045-047>063-066-068>070-078-WIZ014>016-023>028-051815-
DOUGLAS-TODD-MORRISON-MILLE LACS-KANABEC-STEVENS-POPE-STEARNS-
BENTON-SHERBURNE-ISANTI-CHISAGO-LAC QUI PARLE-SWIFT-CHIPPEWA-
KANDIYOHI-MEEKER-WRIGHT-HENNEPIN-ANOKA-RAMSEY-WASHINGTON-MCLEOD-
CARVER-SCOTT-DAKOTA-GOODHUE-POLK-BARRON-RUSK-ST. CROIX-PIERCE-
DUNN-PEPIN-EAU CLAIRE-
1213 PM CST SUN JAN 4 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL
MINNESOTA...EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA...WEST
CENTRAL MINNESOTA...NORTHWEST WISCONSIN AND WEST CENTRAL
WISCONSIN.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

DANGEROUS WIND CHILLS BETWEEN 20 AND 35 BELOW ZERO WILL CONTINUE
TODAY AND TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

LIGHT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED ON MONDAY...GENERALLY ALONG
AND SOUTH OF THE I-94 CORRIDOR. THIS SYSTEM IS TRENDING FARTHER
SOUTH...WHICH MEANS THE MODERATE TO HEAVY SNOW IS EXPECTED ACROSS
FAR SOUTHERN MINNESOTA.

ANOTHER BLAST OF ARCTIC AIR WILL FOLLOW THE STORM FOR MIDWEEK
WITH WIND CHILLS DROPPING INTO THE 30 TO 40 BELOW RANGE TUESDAY
NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

MNZ064-065-067-073>077-082>085-091>093-051815-
YELLOW MEDICINE-RENVILLE-SIBLEY-REDWOOD-BROWN-NICOLLET-LE SUEUR-
RICE-WATONWAN-BLUE EARTH-WASECA-STEELE-MARTIN-FARIBAULT-FREEBORN-
1213 PM CST SUN JAN 4 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL
MINNESOTA...SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND
WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

DANGEROUS WIND CHILLS BETWEEN 20 AND 35 BELOW ZERO WILL CONTINUE
TODAY AND TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

A POTENTIAL QUICK HITTING WINTER STORM WILL BRING A PERIOD OF
MODERATE TO HEAVY SNOW ACROSS FAR SOUTHERN MINNESOTA ON MONDAY.
GENERALLY 4-7 INCHES OF SNOWFALL IS POSSIBLE BY LATE MONDAY
NIGHT...WITH THE HIGHEST TOTALS LIKELY NEAR THE MINNESOTA AND IOWA
BORDER IN SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA.

ANOTHER BLAST OF ARCTIC AIR WILL FOLLOW THE STORM FOR MIDWEEK
WITH WIND CHILLS DROPPING INTO THE 30 TO 40 BELOW RANGE TUESDAY
NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

Nearby

Winter Weather Advisories in Minnesota, 2015Every winter weather advisory 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.