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Frost Advisory 3, NWS Quad Cities, IA

October 13, 20139 counties in Iowa; 12 counties in Illinois

NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this frost advisory at Oct 13, 2013, 3:42 PM CDT for 9 counties in Iowa; 12 counties in Illinois. It took effect at Oct 14, 2013, 3:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 13, 2013, 3:42 PM CDT (20:42 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 14, 2013, 3:00 AM CDT
Expired
Oct 14, 2013, 8:00 AM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Quad Cities, IA
All 21 counties

Cedar County, IA, Clinton County, IA, Des Moines County, IA, Dubuque County, IA, Jackson County, IA, Jones County, IA, Louisa County, IA, Muscatine County, IA, Scott County, IA, Bureau County, IL, Carroll County, IL, Henderson County, IL, Henry County, IL, Jo Daviess County, IL, McDonough County, IL, Mercer County, IL, Putnam County, IL, Rock Island County, IL, Stephenson County, IL, Warren County, IL, Whiteside County, IL

The radar

The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 8 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:44 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 378 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 2013-10-13Temperature 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°0°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 2013-10-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -62 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
817 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.