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Frost Advisory 1, NWS Cheyenne, WY

October 15, 2015Niobrara County, Wyoming; Box Butte County, Dawes County, Sioux County, Nebraska

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this frost advisory at Oct 15, 2015, 5:25 AM MDT for Niobrara County, Wyoming; Box Butte County, Dawes County, Sioux County, Nebraska. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 15, 2015, 5:25 AM MDT (11:25 UTC)
Expired
Oct 15, 2015, 9:00 AM MDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Cheyenne, WY

Counties Box Butte County, NE, Dawes County, NE, Sioux County, NE, Niobrara County, WY

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 179 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:28 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 300 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2015-10-15Temperature 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2015-10-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 206 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
2847 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
206 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
248 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 Cheyenne, WY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this frost advisory went out at Oct 15, 4:57 AM MDT, 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 15, 4:57 AM MDT, 28 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 15, 5:08 AM MDT, 17 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
508 AM MDT THU OCT 15 2015

NEZ002-003-019>021-054-055-095-096-WYZ101>119-161115-
DAWES-BOX BUTTE-SCOTTS BLUFF-BANNER-MORRILL-KIMBALL-CHEYENNE-
NORTH SIOUX-SOUTH SIOUX-CONVERSE COUNTY LOWER ELEVATIONS-
NIOBRARA COUNTY-NORTH LARAMIE RANGE-
FERRIS/SEMINOE/SHIRLEY MOUNTAINS-SHIRLEY BASIN-
CENTRAL LARAMIE RANGE AND SOUTHWEST PLATTE COUNTY-
EAST PLATTE COUNTY-GOSHEN COUNTY-CENTRAL CARBON COUNTY-
NORTH SNOWY RANGE FOOTHILLS-SOUTHWEST CARBON COUNTY-
SIERRA MADRE RANGE-UPPER NORTH PLATTE RIVER BASIN-SNOWY RANGE-
LARAMIE VALLEY-SOUTH LARAMIE RANGE-SOUTH LARAMIE RANGE FOOTHILLS-
CENTRAL LARAMIE COUNTY-EAST LARAMIE COUNTY-
508 AM MDT THU OCT 15 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN
NEBRASKA...EAST CENTRAL WYOMING...SOUTH CENTRAL WYOMING AND
SOUTHEAST WYOMING.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 15, 2:06 PM MDTFrost AdvisoryCYSAlbany, Carbon, Goshen, Laramie, Platte11 hr
Oct 15, 2:06 PM MDTFreeze WarningCYSAlbany, Carbon, Converse, Goshen, Laramie, Niobrara and 1 more19 hr

Nearby

Frost Advisories in Nebraska, 2015Frost Advisories in Wyoming, 2015Every frost advisory in 2015

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.