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Frost Advisory 1, NWS Green Bay, WI

May 6, 20209 counties in Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this frost advisory at May 6, 2020, 2:40 PM CDT for 9 counties in Wisconsin. It took effect at May 7, 2020, 3:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 6, 2020, 2:40 PM CDT (19:40 UTC)
In effect from
May 7, 2020, 3:00 AM CDT
Expired
May 7, 2020, 5:36 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI

Counties Marathon County, WI, Marinette County, WI, Menominee County, WI, Oconto County, WI, Portage County, WI, Shawano County, WI, Waupaca County, WI, Waushara County, WI, Wood County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:39 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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 78 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 2020-05-06Temperature 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°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 2020-05-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 101 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2606 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
130 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.