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Wind Chill Advisory 19, NWS Grand Forks, ND

February 26, 20198 counties in Minnesota; 16 counties in North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this wind chill advisory at Feb 26, 2019, 2:59 PM CST for 8 counties in Minnesota; 16 counties in North Dakota. It took effect at Feb 27, 2019, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 26, 2019, 2:59 PM CST (20:59 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 27, 2019, 12:00 AM CST
Expired: Feb 27, 2019, 12:00 PM CST
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND

All 24 counties

Clay County, MN, Kittson County, MN, Marshall County, MN, Norman County, MN, Pennington County, MN, Polk County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Roseau County, MN, Barnes County, ND, Benson County, ND, Cass County, ND, Cavalier County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Grand Forks County, ND, Griggs County, ND, Nelson County, ND, Pembina County, ND, Ramsey County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Steele County, ND, Towner County, ND, Traill County, ND, Walsh County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:04 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

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 268 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 775 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 82 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 435 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind chill advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before this wind chill advisory went out at Feb 25, 5:55 PM CST, 21 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 25, 5:55 PM CST, 21 hours 4 minutes before

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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.