Alert archive / South Dakota / Frost Advisories in 2016
Frost Advisory 2, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this frost advisory at May 14, 2016, 2:25 PM CDT for 5 counties in Minnesota; 8 counties in South Dakota. It took effect at May 15, 2016, 4:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 2016, 2:25 PM CDT (19:25 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 15, 2016, 4:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- May 15, 2016, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Counties Cottonwood County, MN, Lincoln County, MN, Lyon County, MN, Murray County, MN, Pipestone County, MN, Beadle County, SD, Brookings County, SD, Jerauld County, SD, Kingsbury County, SD, Lake County, SD, Miner County, SD, Moody County, SD, Sanborn County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:22 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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 1511 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
172 WWUS73 KFSD 141925 NPWFSD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 225 PM CDT SAT MAY 14 2016 MNZ071-072-080-081-097-SDZ038>040-052>056-150330- /O.NEW.KFSD.FR.Y.0002.160515T0900Z-160515T1400Z/ LINCOLN MN-LYON MN-MURRAY-COTTONWOOD-PIPESTONE-BEADLE-KINGSBURY- BROOKINGS-JERAULD-SANBORN-MINER-LAKE-MOODY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...TYLER...HENDRICKS...LAKE BENTON... IVANHOE...MARSHALL...SLAYTON...FULDA...WINDOM...MOUNTAIN LAKE... PIPESTONE...HURON...DE SMET...ARLINGTON...LAKE PRESTON... BROOKINGS...WESSINGTON SPRINGS...ALPENA...WOONSOCKET...HOWARD... MADISON...ORLAND...FLANDREAU 225 PM CDT SAT MAY 14 2016 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM TO 9 AM CDT SUNDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM TO 9 AM CDT SUNDAY. * WEATHER CONDITIONS...TEMPERATURES WILL FALL TO INTO THE LOWER TO MID 30S TONIGHT...WHICH WILL LIKELY LEAD TO AREAS OF FROST. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT WIDESPREAD FROST IS EXPECTED. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$
2 follow-up statements
575 WWUS73 KFSD 150729 NPWFSD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 229 AM CDT SUN MAY 15 2016 MNZ071-072-080-081-097-SDZ038>040-052>056-151400- /O.CON.KFSD.FR.Y.0002.160515T0900Z-160515T1400Z/ LINCOLN MN-LYON MN-MURRAY-COTTONWOOD-PIPESTONE-BEADLE-KINGSBURY- BROOKINGS-JERAULD-SANBORN-MINER-LAKE-MOODY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...TYLER...HENDRICKS...LAKE BENTON... IVANHOE...MARSHALL...SLAYTON...FULDA...WINDOM...MOUNTAIN LAKE... PIPESTONE...HURON...DE SMET...ARLINGTON...LAKE PRESTON... BROOKINGS...WESSINGTON SPRINGS...ALPENA...WOONSOCKET...HOWARD... MADISON...ORLAND...FLANDREAU 229 AM CDT SUN MAY 15 2016 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CDT THIS MORNING... * WEATHER CONDITIONS...TEMPERATURES WILL FALL TO INTO THE LOWER TO MID 30S...WHICH WILL LIKELY LEAD TO AREAS OF FROST. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT WIDESPREAD FROST IS EXPECTED. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$
375 WWUS73 KFSD 151352 NPWFSD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 852 AM CDT SUN MAY 15 2016 MNZ071-072-080-081-097-SDZ038>040-052>056-151500- /O.EXP.KFSD.FR.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-160515T1400Z/ LINCOLN MN-LYON MN-MURRAY-COTTONWOOD-PIPESTONE-BEADLE-KINGSBURY- BROOKINGS-JERAULD-SANBORN-MINER-LAKE-MOODY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...TYLER...HENDRICKS...LAKE BENTON... IVANHOE...MARSHALL...SLAYTON...FULDA...WINDOM...MOUNTAIN LAKE... PIPESTONE...HURON...DE SMET...ARLINGTON...LAKE PRESTON... BROOKINGS...WESSINGTON SPRINGS...ALPENA...WOONSOCKET...HOWARD... MADISON...ORLAND...FLANDREAU 852 AM CDT SUN MAY 15 2016 ...FROST ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 9 AM CDT THIS MORNING... TEMPERATURES HAVE WARMED INTO THE 40S...THEREFORE...FROST IS NO LONGER A THREAT. $$
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.