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Winter Weather Advisory 3, NWS Twin Cities, MN
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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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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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</html>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.
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.