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Freezing Rain Advisory 1, NWS Des Moines, IA

December 24, 201612 counties in Iowa

NWS Des Moines, IA issued this freezing rain advisory at Dec 24, 2016, 3:46 AM CST for 12 counties in Iowa. It took effect at Dec 25, 2016, 4:00 AM CST. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 24, 2016, 3:46 AM CST (09:46 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 25, 2016, 4:00 AM CST
Expired
Dec 25, 2016, 2:00 PM CST
In force
10 hr
Issued by
NWS Des Moines, IA

Counties Black Hawk County, IA, Bremer County, IA, Butler County, IA, Cerro Gordo County, IA, Emmet County, IA, Franklin County, IA, Grundy County, IA, Hancock County, IA, Kossuth County, IA, Palo Alto County, IA, Winnebago County, IA, Worth County, IA

The radar

The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:51 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

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 209 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, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 2016-12-24Temperature 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, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 2016-12-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 166 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
532 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
166 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
248 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Des Moines, IA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 24, 1:50 AM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun and 33 more26 hr

Nearby

Freezing Rain Advisories in Iowa, 2016Every freezing rain advisory in 2016

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.