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Frost Advisory 2, NWS Eureka, CA

March 5, 2018Mendocino County, California

NWS Eureka, CA issued this frost advisory at Mar 5, 2018, 2:26 PM PST for Mendocino County, California. It took effect at Mar 5, 2018, 10:00 PM PST. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 5, 2018, 2:26 PM PST (22:26 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 5, 2018, 10:00 PM PST
Expired
Mar 6, 2018, 9:00 AM PST
In force
11 hr
Issued by
NWS Eureka, CA

County Mendocino County, CA

The radar

The Eureka (Bunker Hill) radar (KBHX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:24 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

Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 218 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, Oakland, CA at 12:00Z on 2018-03-05Temperature 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, Oakland, CA at 12:00Z on 2018-03-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -8 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
1347 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

570 
WWUS76 KEKA 052226
NPWEKA

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Eureka CA
226 PM PST Mon Mar 5 2018

CAZ110>113-061130-
/O.NEW.KEKA.FR.Y.0002.180306T0600Z-180306T1700Z/
Northwestern Mendocino Interior-Northeastern Mendocino Interior-
Southwestern Mendocino Interior-Southeastern Mendocino Interior-
226 PM PST Mon Mar 5 2018

...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO 9 AM PST
TUESDAY...

The National Weather Service in Eureka has issued a Frost
Advisory...which is in effect from 10 PM this evening to 9 AM PST
Tuesday. 

* LOW TEMPERATURES...Lows from 33 to 36...with isolated locations
  falling to the upper 20s to low 30s.

* LOCATIONS INCLUDE...Leggett...Laytonville...Willits...
  Covelo...Boonville...Comptche...Ukiah...Hopland....

* FOR A DETAILED VIEW OF THE HAZARD AREA...visit 
  http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/map

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A Frost Advisory means that frost is possible. Sensitive outdoor
plants may be killed if left uncovered.

&&

$$
2 follow-up statements
440 
WWUS76 KEKA 061118
NPWEKA

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Eureka CA
318 AM PST Tue Mar 6 2018

CAZ110>113-061700-
/O.CON.KEKA.FR.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-180306T1700Z/
Northwestern Mendocino Interior-Northeastern Mendocino Interior-
Southwestern Mendocino Interior-Southeastern Mendocino Interior-
318 AM PST Tue Mar 6 2018

...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM PST THIS MORNING...

* LOW TEMPERATURES...Lows from 33 to 36...with isolated locations
  falling to the upper 20s to low 30s.

* LOCATIONS INCLUDE...Leggett...Laytonville...Willits...
  Covelo...Boonville...Comptche...Ukiah...Hopland....

* FOR A DETAILED VIEW OF THE HAZARD AREA...visit 
  http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/map

$$
880 
WWUS76 KEKA 061645
NPWEKA

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Eureka CA
845 AM PST Tue Mar 6 2018

CAZ110>113-061745-
/O.EXP.KEKA.FR.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-180306T1700Z/
Northwestern Mendocino Interior-Northeastern Mendocino Interior-
Southwestern Mendocino Interior-Southeastern Mendocino Interior-
845 AM PST Tue Mar 6 2018

...FROST ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 9 AM PST THIS MORNING...

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Eureka, CA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 5, 1:18 AM PSTFreeze WarningEKAMendocino8 hr
Mar 5, 2:26 AM PSTSmall Craft AdvisoryEKA4 days

Nearby

Frost Advisories in California, 2018Every frost advisory in 2018

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.