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Frost Advisory 5, NWS Aberdeen, SD

September 16, 2017Corson County, Dewey County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this frost advisory at Sep 16, 2017, 1:55 PM MDT for Corson County, Dewey County, South Dakota. It took effect at Sep 17, 2017, 12:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 16, 2017, 1:55 PM MDT (19:55 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 17, 2017, 12:00 AM MDT
Expired
Sep 17, 2017, 8:00 AM MDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD

Counties Corson County, SD, Dewey County, SD

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:00 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

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 151 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 2017-09-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 2017-09-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -54 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
559 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
123 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.