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Frost Advisory 3, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this frost advisory at May 21, 2012, 2:53 PM CDT for 8 counties in Wisconsin. It took effect at May 22, 2012, 2:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 21, 2012, 2:53 PM CDT (19:53 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 22, 2012, 2:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- May 22, 2012, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
Counties Florence County, WI, Forest County, WI, Langlade County, WI, Lincoln County, WI, Marinette County, WI, Oconto County, WI, Oneida County, WI, Vilas County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:55 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
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 971 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -170 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
315 WWUS73 KGRB 211953 NPWGRB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 253 PM CDT MON MAY 21 2012 ...FROST EXPECTED ACROSS NORTH-CENTRAL WISCONSIN TONIGHT... .A HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM SPRAWLED ACROSS THE REGION WILL PROMOTE MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES AND LIGHT WINDS TONIGHT. THESE CONDITIONS WILL SUPPORT AREAS OF FROST DEVELOPING OVER NORTH-CENTRAL WISCONSIN. WIZ005-010>013-018-019-021-220400- /O.NEW.KGRB.FR.Y.0003.120522T0700Z-120522T1200Z/ VILAS-ONEIDA-FOREST-FLORENCE-NORTHERN MARINETTE-LINCOLN-LANGLADE- NORTHERN OCONTO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...EAGLE RIVER...RHINELANDER...CRANDON... TOMAHAWK...ANTIGO 253 PM CDT MON MAY 21 2012 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 7 AM CDT TUESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 7 AM CDT TUESDAY. * TEMPERATURES WILL FALL 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. && $$ MPC
2 follow-up statements
469 WWUS73 KGRB 212236 NPWGRB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 536 PM CDT MON MAY 21 2012 ...FROST EXPECTED ACROSS NORTH-CENTRAL WISCONSIN TONIGHT... .A HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM SPRAWLED ACROSS THE REGION WILL PROMOTE MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES AND LIGHT WINDS TONIGHT. THESE CONDITIONS WILL SUPPORT AREAS OF FROST DEVELOPING OVER NORTH-CENTRAL WISCONSIN. WIZ005-010>013-018-019-021-220400- /O.CON.KGRB.FR.Y.0003.120522T0700Z-120522T1200Z/ VILAS-ONEIDA-FOREST-FLORENCE-NORTHERN MARINETTE-LINCOLN-LANGLADE- NORTHERN OCONTO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...EAGLE RIVER...RHINELANDER...CRANDON... TOMAHAWK...ANTIGO 536 PM CDT MON MAY 21 2012 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 7 AM CDT TUESDAY... * TEMPERATURES AT MOST LOCATIONS WILL DROP AS LOW AS 32 TO 36 DEGREES BY MORNING. A FEW CLIMATOLOGICALLY COLD SPOTS WILL EXPERIENCE SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES FOR A SHORT TIME AROUND SUNRISE. * PLANTS THAT ARE SENSITIVE TO FROST WILL BE DAMAGED AND SHOULD BE COVERED OR TAKEN INSIDE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS EXPECTED. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$
333 WWUS73 KGRB 220150 NPWGRB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 850 PM CDT MON MAY 21 2012 ...FROST EXPECTED ACROSS NORTH-CENTRAL WISCONSIN TONIGHT... .A HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM SPRAWLED ACROSS THE REGION WILL BRING CLEAR SKIES AND LIGHT WINDS OVERNIGHT. THESE CONDITIONS WILL RESULT IN A FAIRLY WIDESPREAD FROST ACROSS NORTHERN WISCONSIN. WIZ005-010>013-018-019-021-221200- /O.CON.KGRB.FR.Y.0003.120522T0700Z-120522T1200Z/ VILAS-ONEIDA-FOREST-FLORENCE-NORTHERN MARINETTE-LINCOLN-LANGLADE- NORTHERN OCONTO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...EAGLE RIVER...RHINELANDER...CRANDON... TOMAHAWK...ANTIGO 850 PM CDT MON MAY 21 2012 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 7 AM CDT TUESDAY... * TEMPERATURES AT MOST LOCATIONS WILL DROP AS LOW AS 31 TO 35 DEGREES BY MORNING. CLIMATOLOGICALLY COLD SPOTS WILL EXPERIENCE SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES FOR A SHORT TIME AROUND SUNRISE. * PLANTS THAT ARE SENSITIVE TO COLD AND 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. && $$ SKOWRONSKI
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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.