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Frost Advisory 5, NWS Wichita, KS

October 28, 20145 counties in Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this frost advisory at Oct 28, 2014, 3:55 PM CDT for 5 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Oct 29, 2014, 4:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 28, 2014, 3:55 PM CDT (20:55 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 29, 2014, 4:00 AM CDT
Expired
Oct 29, 2014, 9:00 AM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS

Counties Barton County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:00 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

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 233 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2014-10-28Temperature 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2014-10-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -74 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1951 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-7 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.