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Frost Advisory 1, NWS Gaylord, MI

May 30, 202021 counties in Michigan

NWS Gaylord, MI issued this frost advisory at May 30, 2020, 3:24 PM EDT for 21 counties in Michigan. It took effect at May 31, 2020, 1:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 30, 2020, 3:24 PM EDT (19:24 UTC)
In effect from
May 31, 2020, 1:00 AM EDT
Expired
May 31, 2020, 8:00 AM EDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Gaylord, MI
All 21 counties

Alcona County, MI, Alpena County, MI, Antrim County, MI, Charlevoix County, MI, Cheboygan County, MI, Chippewa County, MI, Crawford County, MI, Emmet County, MI, Grand Traverse County, MI, Iosco County, MI, Kalkaska County, MI, Mackinac County, MI, Manistee County, MI, Missaukee County, MI, Montmorency County, MI, Ogemaw County, MI, Oscoda County, MI, Otsego County, MI, Presque Isle County, MI, Roscommon County, MI, Wexford County, MI

The radar

The NCL Michigan radar (KAPX), 8 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:26 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

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 279 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2020-05-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 14 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2020-05-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -20 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
14 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1086 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Gaylord, MI issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 30, 3:48 AM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryAPX19 hr

Nearby

Frost Advisories in Michigan, 2020Every frost advisory in 2020

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.