Alert archive / Illinois / Frost Advisories in 2016
Frost Advisory 4, NWS Chicago, IL
NWS Chicago, IL issued this frost advisory at Oct 12, 2016, 3:57 AM CDT for Boone County, Ogle County, Winnebago County, Illinois. It took effect at Oct 13, 2016, 2:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 12, 2016, 3:57 AM CDT (08:57 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 13, 2016, 2:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2016, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Chicago, IL
Counties Boone County, IL, Ogle County, IL, Winnebago County, IL
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:58 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
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 2034 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 234 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.