Alert archive / North Dakota / Wind Advisories in 2016
Wind Advisory 9, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this wind advisory at Sep 25, 2016, 10:15 AM CDT for 17 counties in North Dakota; 6 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 25, 2016, 10:15 AM CDT (15:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 25, 2016, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
All 23 counties
Clay County, MN, Kittson County, MN, Marshall County, MN, Norman County, MN, Polk County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Barnes County, ND, Benson County, ND, Cass County, ND, Cavalier County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Grand Forks County, ND, Griggs County, ND, Nelson County, ND, Pembina County, ND, Ramsey County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Steele County, ND, Towner County, ND, Traill County, ND, Walsh County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:15 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
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 251 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
- 683 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
395 WWUS73 KFGF 251515 NPWFGF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 1015 AM CDT SUN SEP 25 2016 MNZ001>004-007-029-NDZ006>008-014>016-024-026>030-038-039-049- 052>054-260000- /O.NEW.KFGF.WI.Y.0009.160925T1515Z-160926T0000Z/ WEST POLK-NORMAN-CLAY-KITTSON-WEST MARSHALL-WILKIN-TOWNER- CAVALIER-PEMBINA-BENSON-RAMSEY-EASTERN WALSH COUNTY-EDDY-NELSON- GRAND FORKS-GRIGGS-STEELE-TRAILL-BARNES-CASS-RANSOM-SARGENT- RICHLAND-WESTERN WALSH COUNTY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CROOKSTON...EAST GRAND FORKS...ADA... TWIN VALLEY...HALSTAD...MOORHEAD...HALLOCK...KARLSTAD... LANCASTER...WARREN...STEPHEN...ARGYLE...BRECKENRIDGE...CANDO... LANGDON...CAVALIER...WALHALLA...DRAYTON...PEMBINA...NECHE... ST. THOMAS...FORT TOTTEN...MADDOCK...LEEDS...MINNEWAUKAN... DEVILS LAKE...GRAFTON...PARK RIVER...NEW ROCKFORD...LAKOTA... MCVILLE...ANETA...TOLNA...GRAND FORKS...COOPERSTOWN...FINLEY... HOPE...MAYVILLE...HILLSBORO...HATTON...PORTLAND...VALLEY CITY... FARGO...LISBON...ENDERLIN...GWINNER...MILNOR...FORMAN...RUTLAND... WAHPETON...EDINBURG...ADAMS...LANKIN 1015 AM CDT SUN SEP 25 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...NORTHWEST 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH. * TIMING...LATE MORNING AND AFTERNOON * IMPACTS...SMALL AND LOOSE OBJECTS LIKELY TO BE BLOWN AROUND. 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. && $$ DTR
1 follow-up statement
199 WWUS73 KFGF 252353 NPWFGF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 653 PM CDT SUN SEP 25 2016 MNZ001>004-007-029-NDZ006>008-014>016-024-026>030-038-039-049- 052>054-260100- /O.EXP.KFGF.WI.Y.0009.000000T0000Z-160926T0000Z/ WEST POLK-NORMAN-CLAY-KITTSON-WEST MARSHALL-WILKIN-TOWNER- CAVALIER-PEMBINA-BENSON-RAMSEY-EASTERN WALSH COUNTY-EDDY-NELSON- GRAND FORKS-GRIGGS-STEELE-TRAILL-BARNES-CASS-RANSOM-SARGENT- RICHLAND-WESTERN WALSH COUNTY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CROOKSTON...EAST GRAND FORKS...ADA... TWIN VALLEY...HALSTAD...MOORHEAD...HALLOCK...KARLSTAD... LANCASTER...WARREN...STEPHEN...ARGYLE...BRECKENRIDGE...CANDO... LANGDON...CAVALIER...WALHALLA...DRAYTON...PEMBINA...NECHE... ST. THOMAS...FORT TOTTEN...MADDOCK...LEEDS...MINNEWAUKAN... DEVILS LAKE...GRAFTON...PARK RIVER...NEW ROCKFORD...LAKOTA... MCVILLE...ANETA...TOLNA...GRAND FORKS...COOPERSTOWN...FINLEY... HOPE...MAYVILLE...HILLSBORO...HATTON...PORTLAND...VALLEY CITY... FARGO...LISBON...ENDERLIN...GWINNER...MILNOR...FORMAN...RUTLAND... WAHPETON...EDINBURG...ADAMS...LANKIN 653 PM CDT SUN SEP 25 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... WINDS HAVE DROPPED BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA ALTHOUGH RATHER BREEZY CONDITIONS AT 15 TO 25 MPH WILL LINGER OVERNIGHT. THE WIND ADVISORY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$
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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.