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KEY MESSAGES

- A quick moving system Wednesday brings rain, wind and snow. There is a 20 percent chance for advisory level impacts from accumulating and blowing snow.

- West to northwest winds will increase across portions of the Devils Lake Basin and east central North Dakota, with gusts to 45 mph by Wednesday afternoon. A wind advisory is in effect.

..Wind advisory for parts of eastern ND tomorrow afternoon

Southerly winds continue to ramp up as the surface low deepens to our northwest, but so far have remained mostly in the 20 to 30 mph range. On the backside of the surface low tomorrow, winds will shift to the west and then northwest, and there will be some decent cold air advection. The best pressure rises seem more over SD than our forecast area but still could be enough PGF and cold air advection for the higher winds. HREF doesn't have very high probabilities for gusts over 40 mph tomorrow, but the NBM is up to 80 percent and momentum transfer is up around 38 kts for gusts. Went with a wind advisory for portions of the Devils Lake Basin down into the central Red River Valley for tomorrow afternoon.

AVIATION /00Z TAFS THROUGH 00Z THURSDAY/

Issued at 638 PM CDT Tue Apr 7 2026

Significant changes are forecasted at all terminals over the next 24 hours. First, LLWS will be a concern from this evening into the early overnight. As LLWS decreases, ceilings will drop into MVFR, eventually turning into IFR as rain pushes from west to east late tonight into early Wednesday morning. As rain decreases from west to east, northwest winds will increase, with gusts of 30 to 40 knots throughout much of Wednesday morning and afternoon.

FGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES

ND...Wind Advisory from 1 PM to 7 PM CDT Wednesday for NDZ006-014- 015-024-026>030-038-039-054. MN...None.