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Frost Advisory 12, NWS Eureka, CA

October 18, 2016Trinity County, California

NWS Eureka, CA issued this frost advisory at Oct 18, 2016, 10:53 PM PDT for Trinity County, California. It took effect at Oct 18, 2016, 11:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 18, 2016, 10:53 PM PDT (05:53 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 18, 2016, 11:00 PM PDT
Expired
Oct 19, 2016, 8:00 AM PDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Eureka, CA

County Trinity County, CA

The radar

The Eureka (Bunker Hill) radar (KBHX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:59 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

Medford/Jackson, OR (KMFR), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 193 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, Medford/Jackson, OR at 00:00Z on 2016-10-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 74 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Medford/Jackson, OR at 00:00Z on 2016-10-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 58 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
74 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1106 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

070 
WWUS76 KEKA 190553
NPWEKA

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EUREKA CA
1053 PM PDT TUE OCT 18 2016

...CLEAR SKIES AND LIGHT WINDS WILL PROMOTE AREAS OF FROST ACROSS
THE VALLEYS OF TRINITY COUNTY TONIGHT AND THROUGH MID MORNING
WEDNESDAY...

CAZ107-108-191500-
/O.NEW.KEKA.FR.Y.0012.161019T0600Z-161019T1500Z/
NORTHERN TRINITY-SOUTHERN TRINITY-
1053 PM PDT TUE OCT 18 2016

...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM PDT WEDNESDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EUREKA HAS ISSUED A FROST
ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM PDT WEDNESDAY. 

* LOW TEMPERATURES...MID 30S.

* LOCATIONS INCLUDE...VALLEYS AND DRAINAGES WITHIN TRINITY COUNTY. 

* FOR A DETAILED VIEW OF THE HAZARD AREA...VISIT 
  HTTP://WWW.WRH.NOAA.GOV/MAP

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR
PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED.

&&

$$
1 follow-up statement
605 
WWUS76 KEKA 191450
NPWEKA

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EUREKA CA
750 AM PDT WED OCT 19 2016


CAZ107-108-191600-
/O.EXP.KEKA.FR.Y.0012.000000T0000Z-161019T1500Z/
NORTHERN TRINITY-SOUTHERN TRINITY-
750 AM PDT WED OCT 19 2016

...FROST ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 8 AM PDT THIS MORNING...

OVERNIGHT TEMPERATURES MAY FALL INTO THE MID 30S IN SOME OF THE
VALLEYS EARLY THURSDAY MORNING. PATCHES OF EARLY MORNING FROST
WILL ONCE AGAIN BE POSSIBLE.

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Eureka, CA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 18, 6:05 PM PDTSmall Craft AdvisoryEKA3 hr

Nearby

Frost Advisories in California, 2016Every frost 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.