Alert archive / Michigan / Frost Advisories in 2008
Frost Advisory 2, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this frost advisory at May 14, 2008, 3:17 PM EDT for 8 counties in Michigan. It took effect at May 15, 2008, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 2008, 3:17 PM EDT (19:17 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 15, 2008, 2:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- May 15, 2008, 7:48 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
Counties Clare County, MI, Isabella County, MI, Lake County, MI, Mason County, MI, Mecosta County, MI, Newaygo County, MI, Oceana County, MI, Osceola County, MI
The radar
The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:21 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
Alpena, MI (KAPX), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 289 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 462 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.