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Frost Advisory 2, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this frost advisory at May 15, 2012, 1:52 PM CDT for 6 counties in Wisconsin. It took effect at May 16, 2012, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 2012, 1:52 PM CDT (18:52 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 16, 2012, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- May 16, 2012, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
Counties Florence County, WI, Forest County, WI, Langlade County, WI, Lincoln County, WI, Oneida County, WI, Vilas County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:53 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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 2744 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
160 WWUS73 KGRB 151852 NPWGRB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 152 PM CDT TUE MAY 15 2012 ...FROST EXPECTED ACROSS THE NORTH TONIGHT... .SKIES WILL CLEAR AND WINDS WILL DIMINISH TONIGHT BEHIND A COLD FRONT...ALLOWING FOR TEMPERATURES TO COOL QUICKLY AND WIDESPREAD FROST TO DEVELOP. WIZ005-010>012-018-019-160300- /O.NEW.KGRB.FR.Y.0002.120516T0600Z-120516T1200Z/ VILAS-ONEIDA-FOREST-FLORENCE-LINCOLN-LANGLADE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...EAGLE RIVER...RHINELANDER...CRANDON... TOMAHAWK...ANTIGO 152 PM CDT TUE MAY 15 2012 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 7 AM CDT WEDNESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 7 AM CDT WEDNESDAY. * TEMPERATURE...32 TO 36 DEGREES. * IMPACTS...PLANTS THAT ARE SENSITIVE TO FROST CAN BE DAMAGED AND SHOULD BE COVERED OR TAKEN INSIDE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS EXPECTED. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$ WOLF
2 follow-up statements
545 WWUS73 KGRB 160222 NPWGRB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 922 PM CDT TUE MAY 15 2012 ...FROST EXPECTED ACROSS THE NORTH TONIGHT... .CLEAR SKIES AND DIMINISHING WINDS TONIGHT WILL ALLOW FOR TEMPERATURES TO COOL QUICKLY WITH WIDESPREAD FROST DEVELOPING. WIZ005-010>012-018-019-161030- /O.CON.KGRB.FR.Y.0002.120516T0600Z-120516T1200Z/ VILAS-ONEIDA-FOREST-FLORENCE-LINCOLN-LANGLADE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...EAGLE RIVER...RHINELANDER...CRANDON... TOMAHAWK...ANTIGO 922 PM CDT TUE MAY 15 2012 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 7 AM CDT WEDNESDAY... * TEMPERATURE...32 TO 36 DEGREES. * IMPACTS...PLANTS THAT ARE SENSITIVE TO FROST CAN BE DAMAGED AND SHOULD BE COVERED OR TAKEN INSIDE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS EXPECTED. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$
279 WWUS73 KGRB 160844 NPWGRB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 344 AM CDT WED MAY 16 2012 ...FROST EXPECTED ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN EARLY THIS MORNING... .CLEAR SKIES AND LIGHT WINDS WILL ALLOW WIDESPREAD FROST TO DEVELOP. WIZ005-010>012-018-019-161200- /O.CON.KGRB.FR.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-120516T1200Z/ VILAS-ONEIDA-FOREST-FLORENCE-LINCOLN-LANGLADE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...EAGLE RIVER...RHINELANDER...CRANDON... TOMAHAWK...ANTIGO 344 AM CDT WED MAY 16 2012 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM CDT THIS MORNING... * TEMPERATURES WILL BE FROM 32 TO 36 DEGREES AT MOST LOCATIONS... ALTHOUGH LOCAL SUB-FREEZING READINGS ARE ANTICIPATED IN THE TYPICAL COLD SPOTS. * PLANTS THAT ARE SENSITIVE TO FROST WILL BE DAMAGED AND SHOULD BE COVERED OR TAKEN INSIDE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS EXPECTED. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$ TSK
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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.