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Frost Advisory 6, NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA

November 10, 20156 counties in California

NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued this frost advisory at Nov 10, 2015, 2:36 AM PST for 6 counties in California. It took effect at Nov 10, 2015, 11:00 PM PST. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 10, 2015, 2:36 AM PST (10:36 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 10, 2015, 11:00 PM PST
Expired
Nov 11, 2015, 9:00 AM PST
In force
10 hr
Issued by
NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Counties Marin County, CA, Monterey County, CA, Napa County, CA, San Benito County, CA, Santa Clara County, CA, Sonoma County, CA

The radar

The San Francisco radar (KMUX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:37 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

Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 00:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 28 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, Oakland, CA at 00:00Z on 2015-11-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 54 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Oakland, CA at 00:00Z on 2015-11-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 56 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
54 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1059 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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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 San Francisco Bay Area, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this frost advisory went out at Nov 9, 10:26 PM PST, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 9, 10:26 PM PST, 4 hours 10 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 10, 9:11 AM PSTSmall Craft AdvisoryMTR5 hr
Nov 10, 2:31 PM PSTSmall Craft Advisory for Rough BarMTR12 hr

Nearby

Frost Advisories in California, 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.