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Frost Advisory 2, NWS Aberdeen, SD

October 8, 201513 counties in South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this frost advisory at Oct 8, 2015, 2:51 PM CDT for 13 counties in South Dakota. It took effect at Oct 9, 2015, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 8, 2015, 2:51 PM CDT (19:51 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 9, 2015, 1:00 AM CDT
Expired
Oct 9, 2015, 9:00 AM CDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD

Counties Brown County, SD, Campbell County, SD, Clark County, SD, Corson County, SD, Day County, SD, Edmunds County, SD, Faulk County, SD, Hand County, SD, Marshall County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Potter County, SD, Spink County, SD, Walworth County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:55 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 69 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 2015-10-08Temperature 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 2015-10-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -80 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1294 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-4 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.