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Frost Advisory 5, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this frost advisory at Sep 13, 2013, 3:30 AM EDT for 11 counties in Michigan. It took effect at Sep 14, 2013, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 13, 2013, 3:30 AM EDT (07:30 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 14, 2013, 12:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Sep 14, 2013, 9:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
Counties Clinton County, MI, Gratiot County, MI, Ionia County, MI, Isabella County, MI, Kent County, MI, Mason County, MI, Mecosta County, MI, Montcalm County, MI, Muskegon County, MI, Newaygo County, MI, Oceana County, MI
The radar
The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:29 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 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 245 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
- 1667 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 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 Grand Rapids, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this frost advisory went out at Sep 13, 3:22 AM EDT, 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 13, 3:22 AM EDT, 8 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 13, 3:30 AM EDT | Freeze Warning | GRR | Clare, Lake, Osceola | 30 hr |
Nearby
Frost Advisories in Michigan, 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.