Alert archive / Minnesota / Wind Advisories in 2016
Wind Advisory 4, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this wind advisory at Apr 5, 2016, 3:21 PM CDT for 8 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Apr 6, 2016, 9:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 5, 2016, 3:21 PM CDT (20:21 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 6, 2016, 9:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 6, 2016, 12:42 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Martin County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 1348 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 313 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
561 WWUS73 KMPX 052021 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 321 PM CDT TUE APR 5 2016 ...STRONG WINDS OVER SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA WEDNESDAY... .STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS WILL DEVELOP IN THE WAKE OF A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WEDNESDAY MORNING. A WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE AREA OF SOUTHWEST INTO SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...SOUTH OF A LINE FROM NEAR MADISON...NEW ULM AND BRICELYN...FROM 9AM UNTIL 6 PM. EXPECT WINDS TO INCREASE FROM 25 TO 30 MPH WITH SOME GUSTS AROUND 40 MPH BY LATE WEDNESDAY MORNING. MNZ054-064-073-074-082-083-091-092-060430- /O.NEW.KMPX.WI.Y.0004.160406T1400Z-160406T2300Z/ LAC QUI PARLE-YELLOW MEDICINE-REDWOOD-BROWN-WATONWAN-BLUE EARTH- MARTIN-FARIBAULT- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MADISON...GRANITE FALLS... REDWOOD FALLS...NEW ULM...ST JAMES...MANKATO...FAIRMONT... BLUE EARTH 321 PM CDT TUE APR 5 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM TO 6 PM CDT WEDNESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM TO 6 PM CDT WEDNESDAY. * TIMING...NORTHWEST WIND INCREASING TO 25 TO 30 MPH AFTER 9 AM. * WINDS...SUSTAINED 25 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS AROUND 40 MPH. * IMPACTS...DRIVING MAY BE DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. 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. && $$
3 follow-up statements
779 WWUS73 KMPX 060406 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1106 PM CDT TUE APR 5 2016 ...STRONG WINDS OVER SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA WEDNESDAY... .STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS WILL DEVELOP IN THE WAKE OF A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WEDNESDAY MORNING. A WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE AREA OF SOUTHWEST INTO SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... SOUTH OF A LINE FROM NEAR MADISON...NEW ULM AND BRICELYN...FROM 9AM UNTIL 6 PM. EXPECT WINDS TO INCREASE FROM 25 TO 30 MPH WITH SOME GUSTS AROUND 45 MPH BY LATE WEDNESDAY MORNING. MNZ054-064-073-074-082-083-091-092-061215- /O.CON.KMPX.WI.Y.0004.160406T1400Z-160406T2300Z/ LAC QUI PARLE-YELLOW MEDICINE-REDWOOD-BROWN-WATONWAN-BLUE EARTH- MARTIN-FARIBAULT- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MADISON...GRANITE FALLS... REDWOOD FALLS...NEW ULM...ST JAMES...MANKATO...FAIRMONT... BLUE EARTH 1106 PM CDT TUE APR 5 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM TO 6 PM CDT WEDNESDAY... * TIMING...NORTHWEST WIND INCREASING TO 25 TO 30 MPH AFTER 9 AM. * WINDS...SUSTAINED 25 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS AROUND 45 MPH. * IMPACTS...DRIVING MAY BE DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
846 WWUS73 KMPX 061123 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 623 AM CDT WED APR 6 2016 ...STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS TODAY... .A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM TO 6 PM TODAY FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL...SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...SOUTH OF A MADISON...TO NEW ULM TO BRICELYN LINE. STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS WILL DEVELOP IN THE WAKE OF A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM THIS MORNING. EXPECT WINDS TO INCREASE TO 25 TO 30 MPH WITH SOME GUSTS AROUND 45 MPH. MNZ054-064-073-074-082-083-091-092-061930- /O.CON.KMPX.WI.Y.0004.160406T1400Z-160406T2300Z/ LAC QUI PARLE-YELLOW MEDICINE-REDWOOD-BROWN-WATONWAN-BLUE EARTH- MARTIN-FARIBAULT- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MADISON...GRANITE FALLS... REDWOOD FALLS...NEW ULM...ST JAMES...MANKATO...FAIRMONT... BLUE EARTH 623 AM CDT WED APR 6 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING... * TIMING...NORTHWEST WIND INCREASING TO 25 TO 30 MPH AFTER 9 AM. * WINDS...SUSTAINED 25 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS AROUND 45 MPH. * IMPACTS...DRIVING MAY BE DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. 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. && $$
193 WWUS73 KMPX 061742 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1242 PM CDT WED APR 6 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... .THE STRONGEST WIND GUSTS HAVE ENDED AND WILL CONTINUE TO DIMINISH THIS AFTERNOON. MNZ054-064-073-074-082-083-091-092-061845- /O.CAN.KMPX.WI.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-160406T2300Z/ LAC QUI PARLE-YELLOW MEDICINE-REDWOOD-BROWN-WATONWAN-BLUE EARTH- MARTIN-FARIBAULT- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MADISON...GRANITE FALLS... REDWOOD FALLS...NEW ULM...ST JAMES...MANKATO...FAIRMONT... BLUE EARTH 1242 PM CDT WED APR 6 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. THE STRONGEST WIND GUSTS HAVE ENDED AND WILL CONTINUE TO DIMINISH THIS AFTERNOON.. $$ JRB
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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.