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Frost Advisory 4, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this frost advisory at May 16, 2016, 2:53 PM CDT for Barron County, Polk County, Rusk County, Wisconsin. It took effect at May 17, 2016, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 2016, 2:53 PM CDT (19:53 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 17, 2016, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- May 17, 2016, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Barron County, WI, Polk County, WI, Rusk County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:55 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
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 1922 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
272 WWUS73 KMPX 161953 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 253 PM CDT MON MAY 16 2016 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 8 AM CDT TUESDAY... WIZ014>016-170400- /O.NEW.KMPX.FR.Y.0004.160517T0600Z-160517T1300Z/ POLK-BARRON-RUSK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...OSCEOLA...RICE LAKE...LADYSMITH 253 PM CDT MON MAY 16 2016 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 8 AM CDT TUESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 8 AM CDT TUESDAY. * TEMPERATURE...THERE WILL BE SEVERAL HOURS WITH READINGS BETWEEN 33 AND 36 DEGREES EARLY TUESDAY MORNING. * IMPACTS...SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT WIDESPREAD FROST IS EXPECTED. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$
2 follow-up statements
819 WWUS73 KMPX 170318 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1018 PM CDT MON MAY 16 2016 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 8 AM CDT TUESDAY... WIZ014>016-171130- /O.CON.KMPX.FR.Y.0004.160517T0600Z-160517T1300Z/ POLK-BARRON-RUSK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...OSCEOLA...RICE LAKE...LADYSMITH 1018 PM CDT MON MAY 16 2016 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM CDT TUESDAY... * TEMPERATURE...THERE WILL BE SEVERAL HOURS WITH READINGS BETWEEN 33 AND 36 DEGREES EARLY TUESDAY MORNING. * IMPACTS...SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT WIDESPREAD FROST IS EXPECTED. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$ BORGHOFF
723 WWUS73 KMPX 170819 NPWMPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 319 AM CDT TUE MAY 17 2016 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM CDT TUESDAY... WIZ014>016-171300- /O.CON.KMPX.FR.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-160517T1300Z/ POLK-BARRON-RUSK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...OSCEOLA...RICE LAKE...LADYSMITH 319 AM CDT TUE MAY 17 2016 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM CDT THIS MORNING... * TEMPERATURE...THERE WILL BE SEVERAL HOURS WITH READINGS BETWEEN 33 AND 36 DEGREES EARLY TUESDAY MORNING. * IMPACTS...SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT WIDESPREAD FROST IS EXPECTED. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$ JRB
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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.