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Frost Advisory 1, NWS Wichita, KS

April 13, 202217 counties in Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this frost advisory at Apr 13, 2022, 3:51 PM CDT for 17 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Apr 14, 2022, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 13, 2022, 3:51 PM CDT (20:51 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 14, 2022, 1:00 AM CDT
Expired: Apr 14, 2022, 9:00 AM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS

Counties Allen County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Reno County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:52 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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 181 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: 1589 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 77 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -215 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 355 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 Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this frost advisory went out at Apr 13, 12:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 13, 12:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 12, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Ellsworth, Lincoln, Saline	72 min
Apr 12, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Ellsworth, McPherson, Rice, Saline	78 min
Apr 12, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Saline	52 min
Apr 12, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno, Rice	41 min
Apr 12, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson, Rice, Saline	32 min
Apr 12, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson, Reno, Rice, Saline	59 min
Apr 12, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman, Reno	61 min
Apr 12, 10:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harvey, McPherson, Marion	59 min
Apr 12, 10:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper, Kingman	41 min
Apr 12, 10:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Kingman	48 min
Apr 12, 11:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harper, Sedgwick	58 min
Apr 12, 11:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler, Chase	60 min
Apr 12, 11:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harper	24 min
Apr 12, 11:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler, Harper, Sedgwick, Sumner	71 min
Apr 13, 12:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler, Cowley, Greenwood	65 min
Apr 13, 1:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Allen, Wilson, Woodson	49 min
Apr 13, 2:16 AM CDT	Freeze Warning	ICT	Barton, Chase, Ellsworth, Lincoln, McPherson, Marion and 3 more	31 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.