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Winter Weather Advisory 10, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this winter weather advisory at Mar 4, 2018, 3:10 PM CST for 17 counties in Minnesota; Chippewa County, Eau Claire County, Rusk County, Wisconsin. It took effect at Mar 5, 2018, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 21 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 4, 2018, 3:10 PM CST (21:10 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 5, 2018, 6:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Mar 6, 2018, 3:06 AM CST
- In force
- 21 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Martin County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Pope County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN, Chippewa County, WI, Eau Claire County, WI, Rusk County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:13 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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 322 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
- 738 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 239 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 Mar 4, 12:15 PM CST, 2 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 4, 12:15 PM CST, 2 hours 55 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 3:10 PM CST | Winter Storm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 36 more | 36 hr |
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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.