Alert archive / South Carolina / Frost Advisories in 2005
Frost Advisory 2, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this frost advisory at Oct 28, 2005, 4:04 AM EDT for 4 counties in South Carolina. It took effect at Oct 29, 2005, 5:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 28, 2005, 4:04 AM EDT (08:04 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 29, 2005, 5:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 29, 2005, 9:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
Counties Chesterfield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Newberry County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:06 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 1615 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS72 KCAE 280804 NPWCAE URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 404 AM EDT FRI OCT 28 2005 ...FROST ADVISORY EARLY SATURDAY MORNING FOR THE NORTHERN MIDLANDS... .HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD INTO THE AREA TONIGHT. THIS WILL PRODUCE CLEAR SKIES AND DIMINISHING WINDS ACROSS THE NORTHERN MIDLANDS. THIS WILL ALLOW TEMPERATURES TO DROP INTO THE MIDDLE 30S ACROSS THE AREA BY EARLY SATURDAY MORNING...PRODUCING SCATTERED FROST. SCZ015-016-020>022-281615- /X.NEW.KCAE.FR.Y.0002.051029T0900Z-051029T1300Z/ LANCASTER-CHESTERFIELD-NEWBERRY-FAIRFIELD-KERSHAW- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LANCASTER...ELGIN...CHERAW...PAGELAND... NEWBERRY...WINNSBORO...CAMDEN...LUGOFF 404 AM EDT FRI OCT 28 2005 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 5 AM TO 9 AM EDT SATURDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 5 AM TO 9 AM EDT SATURDAY MORNING. MINIMUM TEMPERATURES EARLY SATURDAY MORNING ARE EXPECTED IN THE MIDDLE 30S...WITH SCATTERED FROST. A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE DAMAGED OR KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. $$ VAUGHAN
3 follow-up statements
000 WWUS72 KCAE 281658 NPWCAE URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 1258 PM EDT FRI OCT 28 2005 ...FROST ADVISORY EARLY SATURDAY MORNING FOR THE NORTHERN MIDLANDS... .HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD INTO THE AREA TONIGHT. THIS WILL PRODUCE CLEAR SKIES AND DIMINISHING WINDS ACROSS THE NORTHERN MIDLANDS. THIS WILL ALLOW TEMPERATURES TO DROP INTO THE MIDDLE 30S ACROSS THE AREA BY EARLY SATURDAY MORNING...PRODUCING SCATTERED FROST. SCZ015-016-020>022-290100- /X.CON.KCAE.FR.Y.0002.051029T0900Z-051029T1300Z/ LANCASTER-CHESTERFIELD-NEWBERRY-FAIRFIELD-KERSHAW- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LANCASTER...ELGIN...CHERAW...PAGELAND... NEWBERRY...WINNSBORO...CAMDEN...LUGOFF 1258 PM EDT FRI OCT 28 2005 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 5 AM TO 9 AM EDT SATURDAY... A FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 5 AM TO 9 AM EDT SATURDAY. MINIMUM TEMPERATURES EARLY SATURDAY MORNING ARE EXPECTED IN THE MIDDLE 30S...WITH SCATTERED FROST. A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE DAMAGED OR KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. $$
000 WWUS72 KCAE 281834 NPWCAE URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 234 PM EDT FRI OCT 28 2005 ...FROST ADVISORY EARLY SATURDAY MORNING FOR THE NORTHERN MIDLANDS... .TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO DROP INTO THE MIDDLE 30S ACROSS THE AREA BY EARLY SATURDAY MORNING...PRODUCING SCATTERED FROST. SCZ015-016-020>022-291215- /X.CON.KCAE.FR.Y.0002.051029T0900Z-051029T1300Z/ LANCASTER-CHESTERFIELD-NEWBERRY-FAIRFIELD-KERSHAW- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LANCASTER...ELGIN...CHERAW...PAGELAND... NEWBERRY...WINNSBORO...CAMDEN...LUGOFF 234 PM EDT FRI OCT 28 2005 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 5 AM TO 9 AM EDT SATURDAY... MINIMUM TEMPERATURES EARLY SATURDAY MORNING ARE EXPECTED TO BE IN THE MIDDLE 30S...WITH SCATTERED FROST. A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE DAMAGED OR KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. $$
000 WWUS72 KCAE 291307 NPWCAE URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 907 AM EDT SAT OCT 29 2005 ...FROST ADVISORY THIS MORNING FOR THE NORTHERN MIDLANDS HAS EXPIRED... ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY SUNDAY MORNING FOR THE MIDLANDS AND CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA. .HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT. THIS WILL PRODUCE CLEAR SKIES AND CALM WINDS ACROSS THE REGION. THIS WILL ALLOW TEMPERATURES TO DROP INTO THE MIDDLE 30S ACROSS THE AREA BY EARLY SUNDAY MORNING...PRODUCING SCATTERED FROST. SCZ015-016-020>022-292115- /X.EXP.KCAE.FR.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-051029T1300Z/ /X.CON.KCAE.FR.Y.0003.051030T0900Z-051030T1300Z/ LANCASTER-CHESTERFIELD-NEWBERRY-FAIRFIELD-KERSHAW- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LANCASTER...ELGIN...CHERAW...PAGELAND... NEWBERRY...WINNSBORO...CAMDEN...LUGOFF 907 AM EDT SAT OCT 29 2005 ...FROST ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED FOR THIS MORNING... ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM TO 8 AM EST SUNDAY... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. $$ GAZ040-063>065-SCZ018-025>031-037-292115- /X.CON.KCAE.FR.Y.0003.051030T0900Z-051030T1300Z/ LINCOLN-MCDUFFIE-COLUMBIA-RICHMOND-MCCORMICK-EDGEFIELD-SALUDA- LEXINGTON-RICHLAND-LEE-AIKEN-SUMTER-CALHOUN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LINCOLNTON...THOMSON...MARTINEZ... EVANS...AUGUSTA...HEPHZIBAH...MCCORMICK...EDGEFIELD...JOHNSTON... SALUDA...RIDGE SPRING...WEST COLUMBIA...CAYCE...LEXINGTON... RED BANK...COLUMBIA...BISHOPVILLE...AIKEN...NORTH AUGUSTA... SUMTER...ST. MATTHEWS 907 AM EDT SAT OCT 29 2005 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM TO 8 AM EST SUNDAY... MINIMUM TEMPERATURES EARLY SUNDAY MORNING ARE EXPECTED IN THE MIDDLE 30S...WITH SCATTERED FROST. A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE DAMAGED OR KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. $$
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this frost advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Columbia, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this frost advisory went out at Oct 28, 2:57 AM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 28, 2:57 AM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
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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.