Alert archive / Arkansas / Frost Advisories in 2016
Frost Advisory 1, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this frost advisory at Mar 20, 2016, 3:48 AM CDT for 6 counties in Arkansas. It took effect at Mar 21, 2016, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 20, 2016, 3:48 AM CDT (08:48 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 21, 2016, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 21, 2016, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
Counties Arkansas County, AR, Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Woodruff County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:48 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
Little Rock, AR (KBYH), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 0 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -56 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
Frost Advisories in Arkansas, 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.