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Frost Advisory 2, NWS Chicago, IL
NWS Chicago, IL issued this frost advisory at Oct 13, 2013, 3:07 PM CDT for 15 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, 3:07 PM CDT (20:07 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 Chicago, IL
Counties Boone County, IL, DeKalb County, IL, Ford County, IL, Grundy County, IL, Iroquois County, IL, Kane County, IL, Kankakee County, IL, Kendall County, IL, Lake County, IL, LaSalle County, IL, Lee County, IL, Livingston County, IL, McHenry County, IL, Ogle County, IL, Winnebago County, IL
The radar
The Chicago radar (KLOT), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:09 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 318 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
- 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
Nearby
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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.