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Frost Advisory 4, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this frost advisory at Oct 15, 2013, 10:13 AM CDT for 11 counties in Kansas; Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It took effect at Oct 15, 2013, 10:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 15, 2013, 10:13 AM CDT (15:13 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 15, 2013, 10:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 16, 2013, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Logan County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:14 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 1156 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -223 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this frost advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this frost advisory went out at Oct 14, 6:37 PM CDT, 15 hours 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 14, 6:37 PM CDT, 15 hours 36 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 15, 10:13 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Sherman | 24 hr |
Nearby
Frost Advisories in Kansas, 2013Frost Advisories in Nebraska, 2013Every frost advisory in 2013
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.