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Frost Advisory 1, NWS Topeka, KS

October 6, 200513 counties in Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this frost advisory at Oct 6, 2005, 3:10 PM CDT for 13 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Oct 7, 2005, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 6, 2005, 3:10 PM CDT (20:10 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 7, 2005, 1:00 AM CDT
Expired
Oct 7, 2005, 8:43 AM CDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS

Counties Brown County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Washington County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 110 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2005-10-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2005-10-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -150 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1081 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-150 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Topeka, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this frost advisory went out at Oct 6, 3:01 PM CDT, 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 6, 3:01 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
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Sources

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