Alert archive / Minnesota / Wind Advisories in 2016
Wind Advisory 7, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this wind advisory at Apr 1, 2016, 2:41 PM CDT for 5 counties in Minnesota; Buena Vista County, Clay County, Dickinson County, Iowa. It took effect at Apr 2, 2016, 4:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 1, 2016, 2:41 PM CDT (19:41 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 2, 2016, 4:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2016, 11:05 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Counties Buena Vista County, IA, Clay County, IA, Dickinson County, IA, Cottonwood County, MN, Jackson County, MN, Lincoln County, MN, Lyon County, MN, Murray County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:43 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
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 592 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
880 WWUS73 KFSD 011941 NPWFSD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 241 PM CDT FRI APR 1 2016 IAZ003-014-022-MNZ071-072-080-081-090-020345- /O.NEW.KFSD.WI.Y.0007.160402T0900Z-160402T1800Z/ DICKINSON-CLAY IA-BUENA VISTA-LINCOLN MN-LYON MN-MURRAY- COTTONWOOD-JACKSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SPIRIT LAKE...MILFORD...ARNOLDS PARK... SPENCER...STORM LAKE...TYLER...HENDRICKS...LAKE BENTON... IVANHOE...MARSHALL...SLAYTON...FULDA...WINDOM...MOUNTAIN LAKE... JACKSON...LAKEFIELD 241 PM CDT FRI APR 1 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM TO 1 PM CDT SATURDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM TO 1 PM CDT SATURDAY. * TIMING...NORTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE EARLY SATURDAY MORNING AND REMAIN STRONG UNTIL EARLY AFTERNOON. * WEATHER CONDITIONS...NORTHWEST WINDS WILL AVERAGE 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS OF 35 TO 45 MPH POSSIBLE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BE 31 TO 39 MPH OR GUSTS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 46 AND 57 MPH. WINDS OF THESE MAGNITUDES MAY CAUSE MINOR PROPERTY DAMAGE WITHOUT EXTRA PRECAUTIONS. MOTORISTS IN HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD USE CAUTION UNTIL THE WINDS SUBSIDE. && $$
3 follow-up statements
781 WWUS73 KFSD 020119 NPWFSD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 819 PM CDT FRI APR 1 2016 IAZ003-014-022-MNZ071-072-080-081-090-020930- /O.CON.KFSD.WI.Y.0007.160402T0900Z-160402T1800Z/ DICKINSON-CLAY IA-BUENA VISTA-LINCOLN MN-LYON MN-MURRAY- COTTONWOOD-JACKSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SPIRIT LAKE...MILFORD...ARNOLDS PARK... SPENCER...STORM LAKE...TYLER...HENDRICKS...LAKE BENTON... IVANHOE...MARSHALL...SLAYTON...FULDA...WINDOM...MOUNTAIN LAKE... JACKSON...LAKEFIELD 819 PM CDT FRI APR 1 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM TO 1 PM CDT SATURDAY... * TIMING...NORTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE EARLY SATURDAY MORNING AND REMAIN STRONG UNTIL EARLY AFTERNOON. * WEATHER CONDITIONS...NORTHWEST WINDS WILL AVERAGE 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS OF 35 TO 45 MPH POSSIBLE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BE 31 TO 39 MPH OR GUSTS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 46 AND 57 MPH. WINDS OF THESE MAGNITUDES MAY CAUSE MINOR PROPERTY DAMAGE WITHOUT EXTRA PRECAUTIONS. MOTORISTS IN HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD USE CAUTION UNTIL THE WINDS SUBSIDE. && $$
428 WWUS73 KFSD 020831 NPWFSD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 331 AM CDT SAT APR 2 2016 IAZ003-014-022-MNZ071-072-080-081-090-021645- /O.CON.KFSD.WI.Y.0007.160402T0900Z-160402T1800Z/ DICKINSON-CLAY IA-BUENA VISTA-LINCOLN MN-LYON MN-MURRAY- COTTONWOOD-JACKSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SPIRIT LAKE...MILFORD...ARNOLDS PARK... SPENCER...STORM LAKE...TYLER...HENDRICKS...LAKE BENTON... IVANHOE...MARSHALL...SLAYTON...FULDA...WINDOM...MOUNTAIN LAKE... JACKSON...LAKEFIELD 331 AM CDT SAT APR 2 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... * TIMING...STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS WILL PUSH ACROSS THE AREA EARLY THIS MORNING...AND SHOULD DIMINISH TOWARD MIDDAY. * WEATHER CONDITIONS...NORTHWEST WINDS WILL AVERAGE 25 TO 35 MPH WITH OCCASIONAL GUSTS OF 35 TO 45 MPH. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BE 31 TO 39 MPH OR GUSTS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 46 AND 57 MPH. WINDS OF THESE MAGNITUDES MAY CAUSE MINOR PROPERTY DAMAGE WITHOUT EXTRA PRECAUTIONS. MOTORISTS IN HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD USE CAUTION UNTIL THE WINDS SUBSIDE. && $$
631 WWUS73 KFSD 021605 NPWFSD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1105 AM CDT SAT APR 2 2016 IAZ003-014-022-MNZ071-072-080-081-090-021715- /O.CAN.KFSD.WI.Y.0007.000000T0000Z-160402T1800Z/ DICKINSON-CLAY IA-BUENA VISTA-LINCOLN MN-LYON MN-MURRAY- COTTONWOOD-JACKSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SPIRIT LAKE...MILFORD...ARNOLDS PARK... SPENCER...STORM LAKE...TYLER...HENDRICKS...LAKE BENTON... IVANHOE...MARSHALL...SLAYTON...FULDA...WINDOM...MOUNTAIN LAKE... JACKSON...LAKEFIELD 1105 AM CDT SAT APR 2 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. NORTHWEST WINDS HAVE DECREASED TO 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 35 MPH...AND WILL CONTINUE TO DIMINISHING EVEN FURTHER TO 10 TO 20 MPH BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON. $$
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.