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Frost Advisory 5, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this frost advisory at Oct 15, 2021, 2:39 PM CDT for 5 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Oct 16, 2021, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 15, 2021, 2:39 PM CDT (19:39 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 16, 2021, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 16, 2021, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
Counties Barton County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:43 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 178 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1373 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -127 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
774 WWUS73 KICT 151939 NPWICT URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Wichita KS 239 PM CDT Fri Oct 15 2021 KSZ032-033-047>049-160945- /O.NEW.KICT.FR.Y.0005.211016T0600Z-211016T1300Z/ Russell-Lincoln-Barton-Ellsworth-Saline- Including the cities of Russell, Lincoln, Sylvan Grove, Great Bend, Ellsworth, Wilson, and Salina 239 PM CDT Fri Oct 15 2021 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 8 AM CDT SATURDAY... * WHAT...Temperatures as low as 32 will result in frost formation. * WHERE...Russell, Lincoln, Barton, Ellsworth and Saline Counties. * WHEN...From 1 AM to 8 AM CDT Saturday. * IMPACTS...Frost could kill sensitive outdoor vegetation if left uncovered. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold. && $$ Metzger
2 follow-up statements
569 WWUS73 KICT 160659 NPWICT URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Wichita KS 159 AM CDT Sat Oct 16 2021 KSZ032-033-047>049-161300- /O.CON.KICT.FR.Y.0005.000000T0000Z-211016T1300Z/ Russell-Lincoln-Barton-Ellsworth-Saline- Including the cities of Russell, Lincoln, Sylvan Grove, Great Bend, Ellsworth, Wilson, and Salina 159 AM CDT Sat Oct 16 2021 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM CDT THIS MORNING... * WHAT...Temperatures as low as 32 will result in frost formation. * WHERE...Russell, Lincoln, Barton, Ellsworth and Saline Counties. * WHEN...Until 8 AM CDT Today. * IMPACTS...Frost could kill sensitive outdoor vegetation if left uncovered. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold. && $$ Ketcham
879 WWUS73 KICT 161249 NPWICT URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Wichita KS 749 AM CDT Sat Oct 16 2021 KSZ032-033-047>049-161400- /O.EXP.KICT.FR.Y.0005.000000T0000Z-211016T1300Z/ Russell-Lincoln-Barton-Ellsworth-Saline- Including the cities of Russell, Lincoln, Sylvan Grove, Great Bend, Ellsworth, Wilson, and Salina 749 AM CDT Sat Oct 16 2021 ...FROST ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 8 AM CDT THIS MORNING... Temperatures will gradually warm this morning, so the Frost Advisory will be allowed to expire. $$
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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.