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Frost Advisory 8, NWS Louisville, KY

October 15, 20207 counties in Kentucky; 10 counties in Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this frost advisory at Oct 15, 2020, 2:08 AM CDT for 7 counties in Kentucky; 10 counties in Indiana. It took effect at Oct 16, 2020, 2:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 15, 2020, 2:08 AM CDT (07:08 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 16, 2020, 2:00 AM CDT
Expired
Oct 16, 2020, 8:00 AM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY

Counties Clark County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Orange County, IN, Perry County, IN, Scott County, IN, Washington County, IN, Breckinridge County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Henry County, KY, Meade County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Trimble County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:08 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

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 299 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, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 2020-10-15Temperature 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, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 2020-10-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 391 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
3124 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
391 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
441 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.