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Frost Advisory 4, NWS Milwaukee, WI

September 26, 2012Green Lake County, Marquette County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this frost advisory at Sep 26, 2012, 2:55 PM CDT for Green Lake County, Marquette County, 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, 2:55 PM CDT (19:55 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 Milwaukee, WI

Counties Green Lake County, WI, Marquette County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:56 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 116 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2012-09-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2012-09-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -46 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

765 
WWUS73 KMKX 261955
NPWMKX

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
255 PM CDT WED SEP 26 2012

...AREAS OF FROST TONIGHT TOWARD CENTRAL WISCONSIN...

.HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING INTO WISCONSIN WILL RESULT IN CLEAR
SKIES AND LIGHT WINDS TONIGHT. WITH A COOL AND DRY AIRMASS IN
PLACE...THESE CONDITIONS WILL LEAD TO NEAR FREEZING TEMPERATURES
AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF FROST IN PORTIONS OF CENTRAL WISCONSIN
OVERNIGHT.

WIZ046-047-270400-
/O.NEW.KMKX.FR.Y.0004.120927T0600Z-120927T1300Z/
MARQUETTE-GREEN LAKE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MONTELLO...BERLIN
255 PM CDT WED SEP 26 2012

...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 8 AM CDT THURSDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 8 AM CDT
THURSDAY. 

* TEMPERATURE...FALLING INTO THE LOWER TO MID 30S IN AREAS OF
  MARQUETTE AND GREEN LAKE COUNTIES OVERNIGHT.

* IMPACTS...SENSITIVE VEGETATION WILL BE MOST AT RISK.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT WIDESPREAD FROST IS EXPECTED.
SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED.

&&

$$

WOOD/MRC
3 follow-up statements
870 
WWUS73 KMKX 270218
NPWMKX

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
918 PM CDT WED SEP 26 2012

...AREAS OF FROST TONIGHT TOWARD CENTRAL WISCONSIN...

.HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING INTO WISCONSIN HAS RESULTED IN CLEAR
SKIES AND LIGHT WINDS. WITH A COOL AND DRY AIRMASS IN PLACE...
THESE CONDITIONS WILL LEAD TO NEAR FREEZING TEMPERATURES AND THE
DEVELOPMENT OF FROST IN PORTIONS OF CENTRAL WISCONSIN OVERNIGHT.

WIZ046-047-271030-
/O.CON.KMKX.FR.Y.0004.120927T0600Z-120927T1300Z/
MARQUETTE-GREEN LAKE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MONTELLO...BERLIN
918 PM CDT WED SEP 26 2012

...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 8 AM CDT
THURSDAY...

A FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 8 AM CDT
THURSDAY. 

* TEMPERATURE...FALLING INTO THE LOWER TO MID 30S IN AREAS OF 
  MARQUETTE AND GREEN LAKE COUNTIES OVERNIGHT. 

* IMPACTS...SENSITIVE VEGETATION WILL BE MOST AT RISK.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT WIDESPREAD FROST IS EXPECTED.
SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED.

&&

$$
492 
WWUS73 KMKX 270816
NPWMKX

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
316 AM CDT THU SEP 27 2012

...AREAS OF FROST TOWARD CENTRAL WISCONSIN EARLY THIS MORNING...

.HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING INTO WISCONSIN HAS RESULTED IN CLEAR
SKIES AND LIGHT WINDS. WITH A COOL AND DRY AIR MASS IN PLACE...
THESE CONDITIONS HAVE LEAD TO NEAR FREEZING TEMPERATURES AND THE
DEVELOPMENT OF FROST IN PORTIONS OF CENTRAL WISCONSIN. 

WIZ046-047-271300-
/O.CON.KMKX.FR.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-120927T1300Z/
MARQUETTE-GREEN LAKE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MONTELLO...BERLIN
316 AM CDT THU SEP 27 2012

...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM CDT THIS MORNING...

A FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM CDT THIS MORNING. 

* TEMPERATURE...FALLING INTO THE LOWER TO MID 30S IN AREAS OF 
  MARQUETTE AND GREEN LAKE COUNTIES OVERNIGHT. 

* IMPACTS...SENSITIVE VEGETATION WILL BE MOST AT RISK.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT WIDESPREAD FROST IS EXPECTED.
SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED.

&&

$$

REM
221 
WWUS73 KMKX 271254
NPWMKX

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
754 AM CDT THU SEP 27 2012

...FROST ADVISORY TO EXPIRE AS TEMPERATURES WARM...

.WARMING TEMPERATURES WILL MELT THE FROST THAT FORMED LAST NIGHT.
THEREFORE THE FROST ADVISORY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 8 AM CDT.

WIZ046-047-271400-
/O.EXP.KMKX.FR.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-120927T1300Z/
MARQUETTE-GREEN LAKE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MONTELLO...BERLIN
754 AM CDT THU SEP 27 2012

...FROST ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 8 AM CDT THIS MORNING...

THE FROST ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 8 AM CDT THIS MORNING.

$$

REM

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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.