Alert archive / Minnesota / Heat Advisories in 2016
Heat Advisory 4, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this heat advisory at Jul 10, 2016, 3:22 AM CDT for Lac qui Parle County, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. It took effect at Jul 10, 2016, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 10, 2016, 3:22 AM CDT (08:22 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 10, 2016, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2016, 11:42 AM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Lac qui Parle County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:24 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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 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
- 2269 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -187 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1392 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 386 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 20.7
The text
As transmitted.
621 WWUS73 KMPX 100822 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 322 AM CDT SUN JUL 10 2016 ...HOT AND HUMID OVER FAR WEST CENTRAL MN THIS AFTERNOON... .HEAT INDICES WILL CLIMB TO AROUND 100 DEGREES ACROSS FAR WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA THIS AFTERNOON...INCLUDING THE CANBY AND MADISON AREAS. MNZ054-064-101630- /O.NEW.KMPX.HT.Y.0004.160710T1800Z-160711T0000Z/ LAC QUI PARLE-YELLOW MEDICINE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MADISON...GRANITE FALLS 322 AM CDT SUN JUL 10 2016 ...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A HEAT ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * TEMPERATURE...AIR TEMPERATURES OF 90 TO 95. HEAT INDICES AROUND 100. * IMPACTS...HEAT RELATED ILLNESS IS POSSIBLE IF PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HEAT ADVISORY MEANS THAT A PERIOD OF HOT TEMPERATURES IS EXPECTED. THE COMBINATION OF HOT TEMPERATURES AND HIGH HUMIDITY WILL COMBINE TO CREATE A SITUATION IN WHICH HEAT ILLNESSES ARE POSSIBLE. DRINK PLENTY OF FLUIDS...STAY IN AN AIR-CONDITIONED ROOM...STAY OUT OF THE SUN...AND CHECK UP ON RELATIVES AND NEIGHBORS. && $$
1 follow-up statement
835 WWUS73 KMPX 101642 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1142 AM CDT SUN JUL 10 2016 ...HEAT ADVISORY CANCELLED FOR WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... .MORNING RAINFALL AND SOME LEFTOVER CLOUDINESS WILL RESULT IN AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES BEING SOMEWHAT COOLER THAN PREVIOUSLY FORECAST. THEREFORE THE HEAT ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. MNZ054-064-101745- /O.CAN.KMPX.HT.Y.0004.160710T1800Z-160711T0000Z/ LAC QUI PARLE-YELLOW MEDICINE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MADISON...GRANITE FALLS 1142 AM CDT SUN JUL 10 2016 ...HEAT ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS CANCELLED THE HEAT ADVISORY. MORNING RAINFALL AND LEFTOVER CLOUDINESS WILL RESULT IN AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES BEING SOMEWHAT COOLER THAN PREVIOUSLY FORECAST. THEREFORE THE HEAT ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. HOWEVER... HIGHS SHOULD STILL REACH THE MIDDLE AND UPPER 80S... AND THE HEAT INDEX WILL REACH THE LOWER 90S LATE THIS AFTERNOON... SO MAKE SURE TO DRINK PLENTY OF FLUIDS AND AVOID OVEREXERTION. $$ TDK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 12:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Douglas, Stevens, Todd | 32 min |
| Jul 10, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas | 45 min |
| Jul 10, 1:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Pope, Stearns, Stevens, Todd | 42 min |
| Jul 10, 2:11 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Pope, Stevens, Swift | 49 min |
| Jul 10, 2:52 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Stearns, Swift | 68 min |
| Jul 10, 3:58 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Benton, McLeod, Meeker, Renville, Sherburne, Wright | 62 min |
| Jul 10, 5:34 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn, Goodhue, Martin, Rice, Steele and 1 more | 56 min |
| Jul 10, 6:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Stearns | 26 min |
| Jul 10, 6:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Stearns | 41 min |
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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.