Alert archive / North Dakota / Wind Advisories in 2016
Wind Advisory 12, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this wind advisory at Dec 21, 2016, 11:10 AM CST for 7 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 21, 2016, 11:10 AM CST (17:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 21, 2016, 5:06 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
Counties Barnes County, ND, Cass 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), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:07 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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 1314 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 79 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -187 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
826 WWUS73 KFGF 211710 NPWFGF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 1110 AM CST WED DEC 21 2016 NDZ028-029-038-039-049-052-053-220000- /O.NEW.KFGF.WI.Y.0012.161221T1710Z-161222T0000Z/ GRIGGS-STEELE-BARNES-CASS-RANSOM-SARGENT-RICHLAND- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...COOPERSTOWN...FINLEY...HOPE... VALLEY CITY...FARGO...LISBON...ENDERLIN...GWINNER...MILNOR... FORMAN...RUTLAND...WAHPETON 1110 AM CST WED DEC 21 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. * WINDS...NORTHWEST 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS OVER 45 MPH. THE MAIN IMPACT AREA IS JUST WEST OF THE IMMEDIATE RED RIVER VALLEY. * TIMING...THIS AFTERNOON * IMPACTS...STRONG WINDS WILL CAUSE AREAS OF DRIFTING SNOW AND SNOW BLOWING OVER ROADS MAKING THEM ICY. USE CAUTION. 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. && $$ DTR
2 follow-up statements
171 WWUS73 KFGF 212143 NPWFGF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 343 PM CST WED DEC 21 2016 NDZ028-029-038-039-049-052-053-220000- /O.CON.KFGF.WI.Y.0012.000000T0000Z-161222T0000Z/ GRIGGS-STEELE-BARNES-CASS-RANSOM-SARGENT-RICHLAND- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...COOPERSTOWN...FINLEY...HOPE... VALLEY CITY...FARGO...LISBON...ENDERLIN...GWINNER...MILNOR... FORMAN...RUTLAND...WAHPETON 343 PM CST WED DEC 21 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING... * WINDS...NORTHWEST 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH. * TIMING...THROUGH 6 PM TODAY * IMPACTS...AREAS OF DRIFTING SNOW. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ DTR
844 WWUS73 KFGF 212306 NPWFGF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 506 PM CST WED DEC 21 2016 NDZ028-029-038-039-049-052-053-220015- /O.CAN.KFGF.WI.Y.0012.000000T0000Z-161222T0000Z/ GRIGGS-STEELE-BARNES-CASS-RANSOM-SARGENT-RICHLAND- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...COOPERSTOWN...FINLEY...HOPE... VALLEY CITY...FARGO...LISBON...ENDERLIN...GWINNER...MILNOR... FORMAN...RUTLAND...WAHPETON 506 PM CST WED DEC 21 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WIND SPEEDS HAVE RAPIDLY DROPPED OFF EARLY THIS EVENING, SO THE WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED A LITTLE EARLY. $$
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.