Alert archive / Kansas / Frost Advisories in 2008
Frost Advisory 1, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this frost advisory at May 3, 2008, 3:37 PM CDT for 18 counties in Kansas. It took effect at May 3, 2008, 9:17 PM CDT. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 3, 2008, 3:37 PM CDT (20:37 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 3, 2008, 9:17 PM CDT
- Expired
- May 4, 2008, 8:32 AM CDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
Counties Anderson County, KS, Brown County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:40 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 33 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
- 1236 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 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.