Alert archive / Minnesota / Frost Advisories in 2019
Frost Advisory 2, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this frost advisory at Oct 3, 2019, 3:28 PM CDT for 16 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Oct 4, 2019, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 3, 2019, 3:28 PM CDT (20:28 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 4, 2019, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 4, 2019, 12:39 AM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Brown County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Martin County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Pope County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Todd County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 2286 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 91 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -103 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
116 WWUS73 KMPX 032028 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN 328 PM CDT Thu Oct 3 2019 MNZ041-042-047>049-054>058-064-065-073-074-082-091-040430- /O.NEW.KMPX.FR.Y.0002.191004T0600Z-191004T1400Z/ Douglas-Todd-Stevens-Pope-Stearns-Lac Qui Parle-Swift-Chippewa- Kandiyohi-Meeker-Yellow Medicine-Renville-Redwood-Brown-Watonwan- Martin- Including the cities of Alexandria, Long Prairie, Morris, Glenwood, St Cloud, Madison, Benson, Montevideo, Willmar, Litchfield, Granite Falls, Olivia, Redwood Falls, New Ulm, St James, and Fairmont 328 PM CDT Thu Oct 3 2019 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM CDT FRIDAY... * WHAT...Temperatures as low as 35 will result in frost formation. * WHERE...Portions of central, south central, southwest and west central Minnesota. * WHEN...From 1 AM to 9 AM CDT Friday. * IMPACTS...Frost could damage sensitive outdoor vegetation if left uncovered. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold. && $$
2 follow-up statements
391 WWUS73 KMPX 040226 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN 926 PM CDT Thu Oct 3 2019 MNZ041-042-047>049-054>058-064-065-073-074-082-091-041030- /O.CON.KMPX.FR.Y.0002.191004T0600Z-191004T1400Z/ Douglas-Todd-Stevens-Pope-Stearns-Lac Qui Parle-Swift-Chippewa- Kandiyohi-Meeker-Yellow Medicine-Renville-Redwood-Brown-Watonwan- Martin- Including the cities of Alexandria, Long Prairie, Morris, Glenwood, St Cloud, Madison, Benson, Montevideo, Willmar, Litchfield, Granite Falls, Olivia, Redwood Falls, New Ulm, St James, and Fairmont 926 PM CDT Thu Oct 3 2019 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM CDT FRIDAY... * WHAT...Temperatures as low as 35 will result in frost formation. * WHERE...Portions of central, south central, southwest and west central Minnesota. * WHEN...From 1 AM to 9 AM CDT Friday. * IMPACTS...Frost could damage sensitive outdoor vegetation if left uncovered. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold. && $$
943 WWUS73 KMPX 040539 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN 1239 AM CDT Fri Oct 4 2019 MNZ041-042-047>049-054>058-064-065-073-074-082-091-040645- /O.CAN.KMPX.FR.Y.0002.191004T0600Z-191004T1400Z/ Douglas-Todd-Stevens-Pope-Stearns-Lac Qui Parle-Swift-Chippewa- Kandiyohi-Meeker-Yellow Medicine-Renville-Redwood-Brown-Watonwan- Martin- Including the cities of Alexandria, Long Prairie, Morris, Glenwood, St Cloud, Madison, Benson, Montevideo, Willmar, Litchfield, Granite Falls, Olivia, Redwood Falls, New Ulm, St James, and Fairmont 1239 AM CDT Fri Oct 4 2019 ...FROST ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... The National Weather Service in Twin Cities/Chanhassen has cancelled the Frost Advisory. Widespread cloud cover will keep temperatures too warm for frost development later tonight. Therefore, the Frost Advisory is cancelled. $$ Borghoff
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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.