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Frost Advisory 1, NWS Raleigh, NC

April 10, 202023 counties in North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this frost advisory at Apr 10, 2020, 3:13 PM EDT for 23 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Apr 11, 2020, 3:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 10, 2020, 3:13 PM EDT (19:13 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 11, 2020, 3:00 AM EDT
Expired: Apr 11, 2020, 8:18 AM EDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC

All 23 counties

Anson County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Davidson County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Lee County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Nash County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Wake County, NC, Warren County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:10 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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 108 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1628 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 121 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -158 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -68 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this frost advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Raleigh, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this frost advisory went out at Apr 10, 3:10 PM EDT, 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 10, 3:10 PM EDT, 3 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 10, 10:49 AM EDT	Red Flag Warning	RAH	Alamance, Anson, Chatham, Cumberland, Davidson, Durham and 25 more	7 hr
Apr 10, 3:13 PM EDT	Freeze Warning	RAH	Alamance, Anson, Chatham, Davidson, Durham, Forsyth and 11 more	17 hr

Nearby

Frost Advisories in North Carolina, 2020 Every 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.