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Cold Weather Advisory 6, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this cold weather advisory at Feb 17, 2025, 9:53 AM CST for 4 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Feb 17, 2025, 10:00 AM CST. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 17, 2025, 9:53 AM CST (15:53 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 17, 2025, 10:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 17, 2025, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Faribault County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Martin County, MN, Steele County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:52 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, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 1247 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 110 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this cold 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 cold weather advisory went out at Feb 17, 5:55 AM CST, 3 hours 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 17, 5:55 AM CST, 3 hours 58 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 17, 3:23 AM CST, 6 hours 30 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN 323 AM CST Mon Feb 17 2025 MNZ041>045-047>070-073>078-082>085-091>093-WIZ014>016-023>028- 180930- Douglas-Todd-Morrison-Mille Lacs-Kanabec-Stevens-Pope-Stearns- Benton-Sherburne-Isanti-Chisago-Lac Qui Parle-Swift-Chippewa- Kandiyohi-Meeker-Wright-Hennepin-Anoka-Ramsey-Washington- Yellow Medicine-Renville-McLeod-Sibley-Carver-Scott-Dakota- Redwood-Brown-Nicollet-Le Sueur-Rice-Goodhue-Watonwan-Blue Earth- Waseca-Steele-Martin-Faribault-Freeborn-Polk-Barron-Rusk- St. Croix-Pierce-Dunn-Pepin-Eau Claire- 323 AM CST Mon Feb 17 2025 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of central and southern Minnesota, and west central Wisconsin. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight. Dangerously cold air will move in tonight. Wind chills of 35 to 45 below are expected through 10am. An Extreme Cold Warning is in effect except in southern to eastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin where a Cold Weather Advisory is in effect. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday. Dangerously cold conditions will continue each morning through Wednesday. Wind chill values are expected to drop to 35 to 45 degrees below zero. An Extreme Cold Warning is in effect late tonight into Tuesday 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 17, 2:59 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 36 more | 31 hr |
| Feb 17, 1:31 PM CST | Extreme Cold Watch | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Douglas, Faribault, Kandiyohi and 15 more | 13 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.