Alert archive / North Dakota / Wind Advisories in 2016
Wind Advisory 10, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this wind advisory at Oct 5, 2016, 10:58 AM CDT for 7 counties in North Dakota. It took effect at Oct 5, 2016, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 5, 2016, 10:58 AM CDT (15:58 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 5, 2016, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 5, 2016, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
Counties Barnes County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Griggs County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Steele County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:00 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 941 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
911 WWUS73 KFGF 051558 NPWFGF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 1058 AM CDT WED OCT 5 2016 NDZ024-028-029-038-049-052-060000- /O.NEW.KFGF.WI.Y.0010.161005T1700Z-161006T0000Z/ EDDY-GRIGGS-STEELE-BARNES-RANSOM-SARGENT- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NEW ROCKFORD...COOPERSTOWN...FINLEY... HOPE...VALLEY CITY...LISBON...ENDERLIN...GWINNER...MILNOR... FORMAN...RUTLAND 1058 AM CDT WED OCT 5 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH. * TIMING...WINDS WILL INCREASE BY NOON AND CONTINUE THROUGH EARLY EVENING. * IMPACTS...THE GREATEST IMPACTS WILL BE TO HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES TRAVELING ON NORTH-SOUTH ORIENTED ROADS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ 9
2 follow-up statements
956 WWUS73 KFGF 051850 NPWFGF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 150 PM CDT WED OCT 5 2016 NDZ053-060000- /O.EXA.KFGF.WI.Y.0010.000000T0000Z-161006T0000Z/ RICHLAND- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...WAHPETON 150 PM CDT WED OCT 5 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH. * TIMING...WINDS WILL INCREASE BY NOON AND CONTINUE THROUGH EARLY EVENING. * IMPACTS...THE GREATEST IMPACTS WILL BE TO HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES TRAVELING ON NORTH-SOUTH ORIENTED ROADS...SUCH AS INTERSTATE 29...ESPECIALLY ENTERING SOUTH DAKOTA. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ NDZ024-028-029-038-049-052-060000- /O.CON.KFGF.WI.Y.0010.000000T0000Z-161006T0000Z/ EDDY-GRIGGS-STEELE-BARNES-RANSOM-SARGENT- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NEW ROCKFORD...COOPERSTOWN...FINLEY... HOPE...VALLEY CITY...LISBON...ENDERLIN...GWINNER...MILNOR... FORMAN...RUTLAND 150 PM CDT WED OCT 5 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 25 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH. * TIMING...WINDS WILL INCREASE BY NOON AND CONTINUE THROUGH EARLY EVENING. * IMPACTS...THE GREATEST IMPACTS WILL BE TO HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES TRAVELING ON NORTH-SOUTH ORIENTED ROADS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ 9
548 WWUS73 KFGF 060003 NPWFGF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 703 PM CDT WED OCT 5 2016 NDZ024-028-029-038-049-052-053-060115- /O.EXP.KFGF.WI.Y.0010.000000T0000Z-161006T0000Z/ EDDY-GRIGGS-STEELE-BARNES-RANSOM-SARGENT-RICHLAND- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NEW ROCKFORD...COOPERSTOWN...FINLEY... HOPE...VALLEY CITY...LISBON...ENDERLIN...GWINNER...MILNOR... FORMAN...RUTLAND...WAHPETON 703 PM CDT WED OCT 5 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... WINDS WILL DIMINISH THIS EVENING BUT STILL REMAIN IN THE 10 TO 20 MPH THROUGH THE NIGHT. $$ DTR
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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.