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Frost Advisory 2, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this frost advisory at May 16, 2011, 2:49 PM CDT for 13 counties in Wisconsin. It took effect at May 17, 2011, 3:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 2011, 2:49 PM CDT (19:49 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 17, 2011, 3:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- May 17, 2011, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
Counties Brown County, WI, Calumet County, WI, Marathon County, WI, Marinette County, WI, Menominee County, WI, Oconto County, WI, Outagamie County, WI, Portage County, WI, Shawano County, WI, Waupaca County, WI, Waushara County, WI, Winnebago County, WI, Wood County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:54 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
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 57 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
- 1827 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
561 WWUS73 KGRB 161949 NPWGRB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 249 PM CDT MON MAY 16 2011 ...NEAR FREEZING TEMPERATURES TONIGHT OVER CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST WISCONSIN... .A COLD CANADIAN HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL REMAIN CENTERED OVER THE WESTERN GREAT LAKES TONIGHT. CLEAR SKIES WILL HELP TEMPERATURES FALL TO OR JUST ABOVE FREEZING...WHICH WILL CAUSE AREAS OF FROST TO DEVELOP LATE. THE NEAR FREEZING TEMPERATURES WILL POSE A THREAT TO SENSITIVE PLANTS AND CROPS. WIZ020-030-031-035>039-045-048-049-073-074-170400- /O.NEW.KGRB.FR.Y.0002.110517T0800Z-110517T1200Z/ MENOMINEE-MARATHON-SHAWANO-WOOD-PORTAGE-WAUPACA-OUTAGAMIE-BROWN- WAUSHARA-WINNEBAGO-CALUMET-SOUTHERN MARINETTE-SOUTHERN OCONTO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...KESHENA...WAUSAU...WISCONSIN RAPIDS... STEVENS POINT...APPLETON...GREEN BAY...WAUTOMA...OSHKOSH... CHILTON...CRIVITZ 249 PM CDT MON MAY 16 2011 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 7 AM CDT TUESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 7 AM CDT TUESDAY. * WIDESPREAD TEMPERATURES IN THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 30S ARE EXPECTED LATE TONIGHT. * THE NEAR FREEZING TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE AREAS OF FROST AND A THREAT TO SENSITIVE PLANTS AND CROPS...ESPECIALLY IN LOW LYING AND SHELTERED AREAS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS EXPECTED. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$ MPC
1 follow-up statement
777 WWUS73 KGRB 170229 NPWGRB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 929 PM CDT MON MAY 16 2011 ...NEAR FREEZING TEMPERATURES TONIGHT OVER CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST WISCONSIN... .A COLD CANADIAN HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL REMAIN CENTERED OVER THE WESTERN GREAT LAKES TONIGHT. CLEAR SKIES AND LIGHT WINDS WILL ALLOW TEMPERATURES TO FALL TO AROUND FREEZING...WHICH WILL CAUSE AREAS OF FROST TO DEVELOP LATE. THE NEAR FREEZING TEMPERATURES WILL POSE A THREAT TO SENSITIVE PLANTS AND CROPS. WIZ020-030-031-035>039-045-048-049-073-074-171200- /O.CON.KGRB.FR.Y.0002.110517T0800Z-110517T1200Z/ MENOMINEE-MARATHON-SHAWANO-WOOD-PORTAGE-WAUPACA-OUTAGAMIE-BROWN- WAUSHARA-WINNEBAGO-CALUMET-SOUTHERN MARINETTE-SOUTHERN OCONTO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...KESHENA...WAUSAU...WISCONSIN RAPIDS... STEVENS POINT...APPLETON...GREEN BAY...WAUTOMA...OSHKOSH... CHILTON...CRIVITZ 929 PM CDT MON MAY 16 2011 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 7 AM CDT TUESDAY... A FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 7 AM CDT TUESDAY. * WIDESPREAD TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER 20S TO MIDDLE 30S ARE EXPECTED LATE TONIGHT. * THE NEAR FREEZING TEMPERATURES WILL CAUSE AREAS OF FROST TO DEVELOP. THE FROST WILL POSE A THREAT TO SENSITIVE PLANTS AND CROPS...ESPECIALLY IN LOW LYING AND SHELTERED AREAS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS EXPECTED. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$ KIECKBUSCH
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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.