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Winter Weather Advisory 4, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this winter weather advisory at Jan 13, 2022, 2:35 PM CST for 12 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Jan 14, 2022, 3:00 AM CST. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 13, 2022, 2:35 PM CST (20:35 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 14, 2022, 3:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Jan 14, 2022, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Carver County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Rice County, MN, Scott County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Steele County, MN, Todd County, MN, Wright County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:36 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
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 19 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
- 901 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 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 Jan 13, 12:32 PM CST, 2 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 13, 12:32 PM CST, 2 hours 3 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 13, 2:45 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Faribault, Freeborn, Kandiyohi and 14 more | 42 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.