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Frost Advisory 1, NWS Quad Cities, IA

April 26, 202211 counties in Iowa; 8 counties in Illinois

NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this frost advisory at Apr 26, 2022, 2:39 PM CDT for 11 counties in Iowa; 8 counties in Illinois. It took effect at Apr 27, 2022, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 26, 2022, 2:39 PM CDT (19:39 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 27, 2022, 1:00 AM CDT
Expired
Apr 27, 2022, 8:00 AM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Quad Cities, IA

Counties Cedar County, IA, Des Moines County, IA, Henry County, IA, Iowa County, IA, Jefferson County, IA, Johnson County, IA, Keokuk County, IA, Louisa County, IA, Muscatine County, IA, Scott County, IA, Washington County, IA, Bureau County, IL, Henderson County, IL, Henry County, IL, McDonough County, IL, Mercer County, IL, Putnam County, IL, Rock Island County, IL, Warren County, IL

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 236 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 12:00Z on 2022-04-26Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2022-04-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -86 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1181 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-6 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 26, 2:39 PM CDTFreeze WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque, Jackson and 2 more17 hr

Nearby

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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.