Alert archive / North Dakota / Frost Advisories in 2011
Frost Advisory 2, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this frost advisory at May 24, 2011, 2:46 PM CDT for 10 counties in North Dakota; 8 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at May 25, 2011, 3:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2011, 2:46 PM CDT (19:46 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 25, 2011, 3:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- May 25, 2011, 8:01 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
Counties Beltrami County, MN, Kittson County, MN, Lake of the Woods County, MN, Marshall County, MN, Pennington County, MN, Polk County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Roseau County, MN, Benson County, ND, Cavalier County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Grand Forks County, ND, Griggs County, ND, Nelson County, ND, Pembina County, ND, Ramsey County, ND, Towner County, ND, Walsh County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:52 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
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 297 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
- 611 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
309 WWUS73 KFGF 241946 NPWFGF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 246 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2011 ...FROST ACROSS NORTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHERN MINNESOTA TONIGHT... .CLEAR SKIES WILL DEVELOP TONIGHT ACROSS NORTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHERN MINNESOTA...WHICH WILL CAUSE TEMPERATURES TO PLUNGE INTO THE LOW 30S. FROST WILL DEVELOP OVERNIGHT ACROSS THE AREA. MNZ001-004>009-013-014-NDZ006>008-014>016-024-026>028-054-251300- /O.NEW.KFGF.FR.Y.0002.110525T0800Z-110525T1300Z/ WEST POLK-KITTSON-ROSEAU-LAKE OF THE WOODS-WEST MARSHALL- EAST MARSHALL-NORTH BELTRAMI-PENNINGTON-RED LAKE-TOWNER-CAVALIER- PEMBINA-BENSON-RAMSEY-EASTERN WALSH-EDDY-NELSON-GRAND FORKS- GRIGGS-WESTERN WALSH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CROOKSTON...EAST GRAND FORKS... HALLOCK...ROSEAU...BAUDETTE...WARREN...NEWFOLDEN...RED LAKE... THIEF RIVER FALLS...RED LAKE FALLS...CANDO...LANGDON...CAVALIER... MADDOCK...LEEDS...DEVILS LAKE...GRAFTON...NEW ROCKFORD...LAKOTA... GRAND FORKS...COOPERSTOWN...ADAMS 246 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2011 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 8 AM CDT WEDNESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 8 AM CDT WEDNESDAY. * FROST IS EXPECTED LATE TONIGHT THROUGH PART OF WEDNESDAY MORNING. * TEMPERATURES WILL PLUNGE TO 32 TO 36 DEGREES...WHICH COULD APPROACH RECORD TEMPERATURES. THE RECORD TEMPERATURE FOR GRAND FORKS FOR MAY 25TH IS 30 DEGREES...WHICH WAS SET IN 1924. * THE FROST MAY KILL PLANTS LEFT EXPOSED TO THE ELEMENTS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$ GROCHOCINSKI
3 follow-up statements
453 WWUS73 KFGF 250215 NPWFGF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 915 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2011 ...FROST ACROSS NORTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHERN MINNESOTA TONIGHT... .HIGH CLOUDS WILL DECREASE OVERNIGHT ACROSS NORTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHERN MINNESOTA...WHICH WILL CAUSE TEMPERATURES TO PLUNGE INTO THE LOW 30S. FROST WILL DEVELOP BY EARLY MORNING ACROSS THE AREA. MNZ001-004>009-013-014-NDZ006>008-014>016-024-026>028-054-251300- /O.CON.KFGF.FR.Y.0002.110525T0800Z-110525T1300Z/ WEST POLK-KITTSON-ROSEAU-LAKE OF THE WOODS-WEST MARSHALL- EAST MARSHALL-NORTH BELTRAMI-PENNINGTON-RED LAKE-TOWNER-CAVALIER- PEMBINA-BENSON-RAMSEY-EASTERN WALSH-EDDY-NELSON-GRAND FORKS- GRIGGS-WESTERN WALSH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CROOKSTON...EAST GRAND FORKS... HALLOCK...ROSEAU...BAUDETTE...WARREN...NEWFOLDEN...RED LAKE... THIEF RIVER FALLS...RED LAKE FALLS...CANDO...LANGDON...CAVALIER... MADDOCK...LEEDS...DEVILS LAKE...GRAFTON...NEW ROCKFORD...LAKOTA... GRAND FORKS...COOPERSTOWN...ADAMS 915 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2011 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 8 AM CDT WEDNESDAY... * FROST IS EXPECTED LATE TONIGHT THROUGH PART OF WEDNESDAY MORNING. * TEMPERATURES WILL PLUNGE TO 32 TO 36 DEGREES...WHICH COULD APPROACH RECORD TEMPERATURES. THE RECORD TEMPERATURE FOR GRAND FORKS FOR MAY 25TH IS 30 DEGREES...WHICH WAS SET IN 1924. * THE FROST MAY KILL DELICATE PLANTS LEFT EXPOSED TO THE ELEMENTS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$ JR
366 WWUS73 KFGF 250912 NPWFGF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 412 AM CDT WED MAY 25 2011 ...FROST POSSIBLE ACROSS NORTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHERN MINNESOTA THIS MORNING... .AS TEMPERATURES DROP THROUGH THE 30S EARLY THIS MORNING PATCHY FROST IS POSSIBLE. MNZ001-004>009-013-014-NDZ006>008-014>016-024-026>028-054-251300- /O.CON.KFGF.FR.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-110525T1300Z/ WEST POLK-KITTSON-ROSEAU-LAKE OF THE WOODS-WEST MARSHALL- EAST MARSHALL-NORTH BELTRAMI-PENNINGTON-RED LAKE-TOWNER-CAVALIER- PEMBINA-BENSON-RAMSEY-EASTERN WALSH-EDDY-NELSON-GRAND FORKS- GRIGGS-WESTERN WALSH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CROOKSTON...EAST GRAND FORKS... HALLOCK...ROSEAU...BAUDETTE...WARREN...NEWFOLDEN...RED LAKE... THIEF RIVER FALLS...RED LAKE FALLS...CANDO...LANGDON...CAVALIER... MADDOCK...LEEDS...DEVILS LAKE...GRAFTON...NEW ROCKFORD...LAKOTA... GRAND FORKS...COOPERSTOWN...ADAMS 412 AM CDT WED MAY 25 2011 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM CDT THIS MORNING... * TEMPERATURES WILL FALL TO 32 TO 36 DEGREES RESULTING IN AREAS OF FROST. * THE FROST MAY KILL DELICATE PLANTS LEFT EXPOSED TO THE ELEMENTS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$
857 WWUS73 KFGF 251301 NPWFGF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 801 AM CDT WED MAY 25 2011 ...FROST ADVISORY IS ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... .TEMPERATURES HAVE RISEN INTO THE UPPER 30S AND LOWER 40S...THUS THE FROST ADVISORY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. MNZ001-004>009-013-014-NDZ006>008-014>016-024-026>028-054-251415- /O.CAN.KFGF.FR.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-110525T1300Z/ WEST POLK-KITTSON-ROSEAU-LAKE OF THE WOODS-WEST MARSHALL- EAST MARSHALL-NORTH BELTRAMI-PENNINGTON-RED LAKE-TOWNER-CAVALIER- PEMBINA-BENSON-RAMSEY-EASTERN WALSH-EDDY-NELSON-GRAND FORKS- GRIGGS-WESTERN WALSH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CROOKSTON...EAST GRAND FORKS... HALLOCK...ROSEAU...BAUDETTE...WARREN...NEWFOLDEN...RED LAKE... THIEF RIVER FALLS...RED LAKE FALLS...CANDO...LANGDON...CAVALIER... MADDOCK...LEEDS...DEVILS LAKE...GRAFTON...NEW ROCKFORD...LAKOTA... GRAND FORKS...COOPERSTOWN...ADAMS 801 AM CDT WED MAY 25 2011 ...FROST ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS CANCELLED THE FROST ADVISORY. TEMPERATURES HAVE RISEN INTO THE UPPER 30S AND LOWER 40S...THUS THE FROST ADVISORY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$ KS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 10:27 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FGF | Richland | 33 hr |
Nearby
Frost Advisories in North Dakota, 2011Frost Advisories in Minnesota, 2011Every frost advisory in 2011
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.