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Frost Advisory 6, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this frost advisory at Sep 13, 2016, 2:17 PM CDT for Morrison County, Todd County, Minnesota. It took effect at Sep 14, 2016, 3:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 13, 2016, 2:17 PM CDT (19:17 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 14, 2016, 3:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Sep 14, 2016, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Morrison County, MN, Todd County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:19 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
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 753 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
967 WWUS73 KMPX 131917 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 217 PM CDT TUE SEP 13 2016 ...FIRST FROST OF THE SEASON ACROSS PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... .HIGH PRESSURE WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA TONIGHT. SKIES WILL CLEAR AND WINDS WILL BECOME CALM...AND ALLOW TEMPERATURES TO FALL INTO THE MID 30S. MNZ042-043-140330- /O.NEW.KMPX.FR.Y.0006.160914T0800Z-160914T1300Z/ TODD-MORRISON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LONG PRAIRIE...LITTLE FALLS 217 PM CDT TUE SEP 13 2016 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 8 AM CDT WEDNESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 8 AM CDT WEDNESDAY. * TEMPERATURE...33 TO 36 * IMPACTS...FROST MAY DAMAGE OR KILL SENSITIVE VEGETATION. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT WIDESPREAD FROST IS EXPECTED. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$
2 follow-up statements
356 WWUS73 KMPX 140103 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 803 PM CDT TUE SEP 13 2016 MNZ042-043-140915- /O.CON.KMPX.FR.Y.0006.160914T0800Z-160914T1300Z/ TODD-MORRISON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LONG PRAIRIE...LITTLE FALLS 803 PM CDT TUE SEP 13 2016 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 8 AM CDT WEDNESDAY... * TEMPERATURES...33 TO 36 * TIMING...EARLY MORNING HOURS. * IMPACTS...FROST MAY DAMAGE OR KILL SENSITIVE VEGETATION IF NOT COVERED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT WIDESPREAD FROST IS EXPECTED. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$
544 WWUS73 KMPX 140755 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 255 AM CDT WED SEP 14 2016 MNZ042-043-141300- /O.CON.KMPX.FR.Y.0006.160914T0800Z-160914T1300Z/ TODD-MORRISON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LONG PRAIRIE...LITTLE FALLS 255 AM CDT WED SEP 14 2016 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM CDT THIS MORNING... * TEMPERATURES...33 TO 36 * TIMING...EARLY MORNING HOURS. * IMPACTS...FROST MAY DAMAGE OR KILL SENSITIVE VEGETATION IF NOT COVERED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT WIDESPREAD FROST IS EXPECTED. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$
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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.