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Frost Advisory 2, NWS Green Bay, WI

May 16, 20166 counties in Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this frost advisory at May 16, 2016, 2:55 PM CDT for 6 counties in Wisconsin. It took effect at May 17, 2016, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 16, 2016, 2:55 PM CDT (19:55 UTC)
In effect from
May 17, 2016, 1:00 AM CDT
Expired
May 17, 2016, 7:00 AM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI

Counties Florence County, WI, Forest County, WI, Langlade County, WI, Lincoln County, WI, Oneida County, WI, Vilas County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:57 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

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 154 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2016-05-16Temperature 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°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2016-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 134 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1624 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
134 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
163 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

425 
WWUS73 KGRB 161955
NPWGRB

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
255 PM CDT MON MAY 16 2016

WIZ005-010>012-018-019-170400-
/O.NEW.KGRB.FR.Y.0002.160517T0600Z-160517T1200Z/
VILAS-ONEIDA-FOREST-FLORENCE-LINCOLN-LANGLADE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...EAGLE RIVER...LAC DU FLAMBEAU...
RHINELANDER...CRANDON...AURORA...COMMONWEALTH...SPREAD EAGLE...
MERRILL...TOMAHAWK...ANTIGO
255 PM CDT MON MAY 16 2016

...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 7 AM CDT TUESDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A FROST
ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 7 AM CDT TUESDAY. 

* LOW TEMPERATURES BETWEEN 28 AND 32 DEGREES ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT.

* TEMPERATURES THIS COLD WILL KILL OR SEVERELY DAMAGE UNPROTECTED
  COLD-SENSITIVE VEGETATION.

* OVERNIGHT LOWS IN NORTH-CENTRAL AND FAR NORTHEAST WISCONSIN WILL
  LIKELY FALL ENOUGH TO POSE A HAZARD TO COLD SENSITIVE PLANTS
  AGAIN ON TUESDAY NIGHT.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

$$

MPC
1 follow-up statement
664 
WWUS73 KGRB 170311
NPWGRB

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
1011 PM CDT MON MAY 16 2016

WIZ005-010>012-018-019-171200-
/O.CON.KGRB.FR.Y.0002.160517T0600Z-160517T1200Z/
VILAS-ONEIDA-FOREST-FLORENCE-LINCOLN-LANGLADE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...EAGLE RIVER...LAC DU FLAMBEAU...
RHINELANDER...CRANDON...AURORA...COMMONWEALTH...SPREAD EAGLE...
MERRILL...TOMAHAWK...ANTIGO
1011 PM CDT MON MAY 16 2016

...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM CDT TUESDAY...

* LOW TEMPERATURES BETWEEN 28 AND 32 DEGREES ARE EXPECTED 
  TONIGHT.

* TEMPERATURES THIS COLD WILL KILL OR SEVERELY DAMAGE 
  UNPROTECTED COLD-SENSITIVE VEGETATION. 

* OVERNIGHT LOWS IN NORTH-CENTRAL AND FAR NORTHEAST WISCONSIN 
  WILL LIKELY FALL ENOUGH TO POSE A HAZARD TO COLD SENSITIVE 
  PLANTS AGAIN ON TUESDAY NIGHT. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

$$

KURIMSKI

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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.