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Frost Advisory 1, NWS Bismarck, ND

May 15, 20144 counties in North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this frost advisory at May 15, 2014, 2:51 PM MDT for 4 counties in North Dakota. It took effect at May 16, 2014, 12:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 15, 2014, 2:51 PM MDT (20:51 UTC)
In effect from
May 16, 2014, 12:00 AM MDT
Expired
May 16, 2014, 2:27 AM MDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND

Counties Grant County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Renville County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:50 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

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 370 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, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2014-05-15Temperature 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, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2014-05-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
826 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
85 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Bismarck, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before this frost advisory went out at May 14, 5:50 PM MDT, 21 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 14, 5:50 PM MDT, 21 hours 1 minute before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 15, 2:51 PM MDTFreeze WarningBISBottineau, Burleigh, Dickey, Emmons, Foster, Kidder and 9 more16 hr

Nearby

Frost Advisories in North Dakota, 2014Every frost advisory in 2014

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.