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Dense Fog Advisory 16, NWS Grand Forks, ND

December 15, 202113 counties in Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this dense fog advisory at Dec 15, 2021, 3:34 PM CST for 13 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 15, 2021, 3:34 PM CST (21:34 UTC)
Expired: Dec 15, 2021, 8:00 PM CST
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND

Counties Becker County, MN, Clay County, MN, Grant County, MN, Kittson County, MN, Mahnomen County, MN, Marshall County, MN, Norman County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pennington County, MN, Polk County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Roseau County, MN, Wilkin County, MN

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:34 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 331 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: 1817 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 130 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 dense fog 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 dense fog advisory went out at Dec 15, 3:15 PM CST, 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 15, 3:15 PM CST, 19 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 15, 3:25 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	FGF	Barnes, Benson, Cass, Cavalier, Eddy, Grand Forks and 11 more	31 hr
Dec 15, 6:43 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	FGF	Barnes, Cass, Grand Forks, Pembina, Ransom, Richland and 4 more	13 hr
Dec 15, 3:33 PM CST	Winter Storm Warning	FGF	Becker, Beltrami, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard, Lake of the Woods and 3 more	18 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.