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Frost Advisory 5, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this frost advisory at Oct 24, 2015, 2:49 AM CDT for 7 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Oct 25, 2015, 4:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 24, 2015, 2:49 AM CDT (07:49 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 25, 2015, 4:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 25, 2015, 6:33 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Logan County, KS, Norton County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 1508 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 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.