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Dense Fog Advisory 5, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this dense fog advisory at Sep 8, 2016, 3:08 AM CDT for Chippewa County, Eau Claire County, Rusk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 8, 2016, 3:08 AM CDT (08:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 2016, 5:17 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Chippewa County, WI, Eau Claire County, WI, Rusk County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:08 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 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 303 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 871 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this dense fog 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 dense fog advisory went out at Sep 8, 12:59 AM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 8, 12:59 AM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 7, 2:26 PM CDT, 12 hours 42 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 226 PM CDT WED SEP 7 2016 MNZ041>045-047>070-073>078-082>085-091>093-WIZ014>016-023>028- 081930- 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- YELLOW MEDICINE-RENVILLE-MCLEOD-SIBLEY-CARVER-SCOTT-DAKOTA- REDWOOD-BROWN-NICOLLET-LE SUEUR-RICE-GOODHUE-WATONWAN-BLUE EARTH- WASECA-STEELE-MARTIN-FARIBAULT-FREEBORN-POLK-BARRON-RUSK- ST. CROIX-PIERCE-DUNN-PEPIN-EAU CLAIRE- 226 PM CDT WED SEP 7 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA...EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA...SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...NORTHWEST WISCONSIN AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO WESTERN MINNESOTA AROUND 6 PM THIS EVENING AND MOVE ACROSS CENTRAL AND POSSIBLY SOUTHERN MINNESOTA THROUGH THE EVENING...ENTERING WESTERN WISCONSIN IN A WEAKENING STATE A LITTLE AFTER 10 PM. SEVERE WEATHER WITH DAMAGING WIND GUSTS WILL POSSIBLE ACROSS MINNESOTA...WITH THE SEVERE THREAT DIMINISHING IN WESTERN WISCONSIN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FRIDAY. THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED IN MINNESOTA THIS EVENING.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 7, 11:41 PM CDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
1141 PM CDT WED SEP 7 2016
MNZ043>045-080545-
MILLE LACS-MORRISON-KANABEC-
1141 PM CDT WED SEP 7 2016
...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT NORTHERN KANABEC...EAST
CENTRAL MORRISON AND NORTHERN MILLE LACS COUNTIES...
AT 1140 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED
ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR MALMO TO ONAMIA TO NEAR HILLMAN.
MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MPH.
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MILLE LACS LAKE...ONAMIA...ISLE...WAHKON...LASTRUP...VINELAND...
WARMAN...LAKE MILLE LACS AND BAYVIEW.
THIS INCLUDES U.S. HIGHWAY 169 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 211 AND 225.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...AND MAY
CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
LAT...LON 4615 9343 4615 9306 4610 9306 4602 9340
4603 9413 4613 9385 4625 9367 4625 9344
TIME...MOT...LOC 0440Z 264DEG 24KT 4627 9352 4609 9366 4602 9397The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 7:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Pope | 81 min |
| Sep 7, 9:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Todd | 45 min |
| Sep 7, 11:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Mille Lacs | 64 min |
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.