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Winter Weather Advisory 11, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this winter weather advisory at Nov 17, 2016, 3:44 AM CST for 21 counties in Minnesota; Polk County, Wisconsin. It took effect at Nov 18, 2016, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 17, 2016, 3:44 AM CST (09:44 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 18, 2016, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Nov 18, 2016, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
All 22 counties
Anoka County, MN, Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Carver County, MN, Chisago County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Isanti County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Martin County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Ramsey County, MN, Rice County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Washington County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Wright County, MN, Polk County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:48 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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 373 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
- 1617 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter weather 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 winter weather advisory went out at Nov 17, 12:14 AM CST, 3 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 17, 12:14 AM CST, 3 hours 30 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 17, 3:44 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Douglas, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Meeker, Pope and 7 more | 41 hr |
| Nov 17, 3:44 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | MPX | Benton, Kanabec, Meeker, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Stearns and 1 more | 41 hr |
| Nov 17, 4:12 PM CST | Wind Advisory | MPX | Dakota, Faribault, Freeborn, Goodhue, Rice, Steele and 1 more | 32 hr |
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.