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Blowing Dust Advisory 3, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this blowing dust advisory at May 14, 2026, 12:36 PM CDT for 15 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 2026, 12:36 PM CDT (17:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 2026, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Brown County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Pope County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 2066 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 11:39 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MPX | Benton, Chippewa, Chisago, Douglas, Isanti, Kanabec and 16 more | 33 hr |
| May 14, 11:47 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Lac qui Parle | 43 min |
| May 14, 12:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 45 min |
| May 14, 12:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Chippewa, Swift | 48 min |
| May 14, 12:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Douglas, Stevens | 43 min |
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.