Alert archive / Wisconsin / Frost Advisories in 2012
Frost Advisory 4, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this frost advisory at Sep 26, 2012, 3:13 PM CDT for 6 counties in Wisconsin. It took effect at Sep 27, 2012, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 26, 2012, 3:13 PM CDT (20:13 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 27, 2012, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Sep 27, 2012, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
Counties Adams County, WI, Clark County, WI, Jackson County, WI, Juneau County, WI, Monroe County, WI, Taylor County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:12 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 1024 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
711 WWUS73 KARX 262013 NPWARX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 313 PM CDT WED SEP 26 2012 ...WIDESPREAD FROST EXPECTED OVERNIGHT... .THE COMBINATION OF CLEAR SKIES...LIGHT WINDS...AND A DRY AIRMASS WILL LEAD TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF WIDESPREAD FROST OVERNIGHT ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN. WIZ017-029-034-042>044-270415- /O.NEW.KARX.FR.Y.0004.120927T0600Z-120927T1300Z/ TAYLOR-CLARK-JACKSON-MONROE-JUNEAU-ADAMS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MEDFORD...NEILLSVILLE... BLACK RIVER FALLS...SPARTA...TOMAH...MAUSTON 313 PM CDT WED SEP 26 2012 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 8 AM CDT THURSDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 8 AM CDT THURSDAY. * TEMPERATURE...OVERNIGHT LOWS RANGING FROM 27 TO 34 DEGREES. * IMPACTS...SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS ARE AT THE MOST RISK...AND SHOULD BE COVERED OR BROUGHT INDOORS OVERNIGHT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$ ZT WEATHER.GOV/LACROSSE
3 follow-up statements
957 WWUS73 KARX 270206 NPWARX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 906 PM CDT WED SEP 26 2012 ...WIDESPREAD FROST EXPECTED OVERNIGHT... .AS OF 9 PM...TEMPERATURES HAVE QUICKLY DROPPED INTO THE UPPER 30S TO LOWER 40S ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN. CLEAR SKIES...LIGHT WINDS AND A DRY AIRMASS WILL ALLOW TEMPERATURES TO CONTINUE TO FALL...LEADING TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF WIDESPREAD FROST OVERNIGHT ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN. WIZ017-029-034-042>044-271015- /O.CON.KARX.FR.Y.0004.120927T0600Z-120927T1300Z/ TAYLOR-CLARK-JACKSON-MONROE-JUNEAU-ADAMS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MEDFORD...NEILLSVILLE... BLACK RIVER FALLS...SPARTA...TOMAH...MAUSTON 906 PM CDT WED SEP 26 2012 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 8 AM CDT THURSDAY... * TEMPERATURE...OVERNIGHT LOWS RANGING FROM 27 TO 34 DEGREES. * IMPACTS...SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS ARE AT THE MOST RISK...AND SHOULD BE COVERED OR BROUGHT INDOORS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$ AJ WEATHER.GOV/LACROSSE
886 WWUS73 KARX 270806 NPWARX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 306 AM CDT THU SEP 27 2012 ...WIDESPREAD FROST EARLY THIS MORNING... .TEMPERATURES HAVE FALLEN INTO THE UPPER 20S TO LOWER 30S ACROSS PARTS OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN. COUPLED WITH CLEAR SKIES AND LIGHT WINDS...WIDESPREAD FROST IF LIKELY BEFORE DAYBREAK. WIZ017-029-034-042>044-271300- /O.CON.KARX.FR.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-120927T1300Z/ TAYLOR-CLARK-JACKSON-MONROE-JUNEAU-ADAMS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MEDFORD...NEILLSVILLE... BLACK RIVER FALLS...SPARTA...TOMAH...MAUSTON 306 AM CDT THU SEP 27 2012 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM CDT THIS MORNING... * TEMPERATURE...LOWS IN THE UPPER 20S TO LOWER 30S. * IMPACTS...SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS ARE AT THE MOST RISK...AND SHOULD BE COVERED OR BROUGHT INDOORS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$ RIECK WEATHER.GOV/LACROSSE
061 WWUS73 KARX 271243 NPWARX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 743 AM CDT THU SEP 27 2012 ...AREAS OF FROST THIS MORNING... .TEMPERATURES DROPPED OFF INTO THE MID 20S TO LOWER 30S THIS MORNING. COUPLED WITH CLEAR SKIES AND LIGHT WINDS...AREAS OF FROST DEVELOPED. DAMAGE WAS LIKELY DONE TO COLD-SENSITIVE PLANTS IF PRECAUTIONS WERE NOT TAKEN. WIZ017-029-034-042>044-271345- /O.EXP.KARX.FR.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-120927T1300Z/ TAYLOR-CLARK-JACKSON-MONROE-JUNEAU-ADAMS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MEDFORD...NEILLSVILLE... BLACK RIVER FALLS...SPARTA...TOMAH...MAUSTON 743 AM CDT THU SEP 27 2012 ...FROST ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 8 AM CDT THIS MORNING... TEMPERATURES IN THE MID 20S TO LOWER 30S...ALONG WITH CLEAR SKIES AND LIGHT WINDS...RESULTED IN AREAS OF FROST FOR THE REGION. COLD-SENSITIVE PLANTS LIKELY SUSTAINED DAMAGE IF PRECAUTIONS WERE NOT TAKEN. $$ RIECK WEATHER.GOV/LACROSSE
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.