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Frost Advisory 3, NWS Bismarck, ND

May 26, 200817 counties in North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this frost advisory at May 26, 2008, 2:04 PM MDT for 17 counties in North Dakota. It took effect at May 27, 2008, 3:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 26, 2008, 2:04 PM MDT (20:04 UTC)
In effect from
May 27, 2008, 3:00 AM MDT
Expired
May 27, 2008, 8:00 AM MDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND

Counties Billings County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Dickey County, ND, Divide County, ND, Dunn County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Grant County, ND, Kidder County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, McKenzie County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Mountrail County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Stark County, ND, Williams County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 332 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, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2008-05-26Temperature 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, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2008-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -65 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
578 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 9:50 AM MDTFreeze WatchBISBottineau, Burke, Burleigh, Divide, Foster, Kidder and 9 more4 hr
May 26, 2:04 PM MDTFreeze WarningBISBottineau, Burke, Foster, McHenry, Pierce, Renville and 4 more18 hr

Nearby

Frost Advisories in North Dakota, 2008Every frost advisory in 2008

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.