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Winter Weather Advisory 18, NWS Grand Forks, ND

December 28, 20217 counties in North Dakota; 15 counties in Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this winter weather advisory at Dec 28, 2021, 6:53 AM CST for 7 counties in North Dakota; 15 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 16 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 28, 2021, 6:53 AM CST (12:53 UTC)
Expired: Dec 28, 2021, 11:10 PM CST
In force: 16 hr
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND

All 22 counties

Becker County, MN, Beltrami County, MN, Clay County, MN, Clearwater County, MN, Hubbard County, MN, Lake of the Woods 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, Wadena County, MN, Barnes County, ND, Cass County, ND, Grand Forks County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Steele County, ND, Traill County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:58 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

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 259 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: 707 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before this winter weather advisory went out at Dec 28, 5:40 AM CST, 1 hour 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 28, 5:40 AM CST, 1 hour 13 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 28, 3:21 PM CST	Wind Chill Warning	FGF	Barnes, Benson, Cass, Cavalier, Eddy, Grand Forks and 11 more	40 hr
Dec 28, 3:21 PM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	FGF	Barnes, Benson, Cass, Cavalier, Eddy, Grand Forks and 11 more	45 hr
Dec 28, 12:57 PM CST	Winter Storm Warning	FGF	Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard, Mahnomen, Marshall, Pennington and 3 more	10 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.