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Winter Weather Advisory 9, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this winter weather advisory at Feb 1, 2022, 3:12 PM CST for 4 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 1, 2022, 3:12 PM CST (21:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 1, 2022, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Douglas County, MN, Pope County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Todd County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 181 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:12 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
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 616 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 92 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 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 Feb 1, 3:07 PM CST, 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 1, 3:07 PM CST, 5 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 1, 2:42 PM CST, 30 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN 242 PM CST Tue Feb 1 2022 MNZ041>045-047>050-054>058-064>067-073>075-082-083-091-092-022045- Douglas-Todd-Morrison-Mille Lacs-Kanabec-Stevens-Pope-Stearns- Benton-Lac Qui Parle-Swift-Chippewa-Kandiyohi-Meeker- Yellow Medicine-Renville-McLeod-Sibley-Redwood-Brown-Nicollet- Watonwan-Blue Earth-Martin-Faribault- 242 PM CST Tue Feb 1 2022 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of central Minnesota...east central Minnesota...south central Minnesota... southwest Minnesota and west central Minnesota. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Blowing snow and reduced visibilities will continue across western and central Minnesota through early evening. Reductions in visibility are likely. Dangerously cold wind chills of 25 to 35 below zero are expected overnight into Wednesday morning. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. Dangerous wind chills are expected again Wednesday night through Friday morning. The coldest wind chills will occur overnight Wednesday into Thursday morning. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN spotter activation will not be needed. MNZ051>053-059>063-068>070-076>078-084-085-093-WIZ014>016-023>028- 022045- Sherburne-Isanti-Chisago-Wright-Hennepin-Anoka-Ramsey-Washington- Carver-Scott-Dakota-Le Sueur-Rice-Goodhue-Waseca-Steele-Freeborn- Polk-Barron-Rusk-St. Croix-Pierce-Dunn-Pepin-Chippewa-Eau Claire- 242 PM CST Tue Feb 1 2022 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of central Minnesota...east central Minnesota...south central Minnesota... southeast Minnesota...northwest Wisconsin and west central Wisconsin. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Patchy blowing snow will continue through early this evening. Brief reductions in visibility are possible. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. Dangerous wind chills are expected Wednesday night through Friday morning. The coldest wind chills will occur overnight Wednesday into Thursday morning. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN spotter activation will not be needed.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1, 3:04 AM CST | Wind Chill Advisory | MPX | Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Douglas, Faribault and 19 more | 57 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.