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Frost Advisory 3, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this frost advisory at Apr 25, 2022, 3:46 PM CDT for 15 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Apr 26, 2022, 2:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 25, 2022, 3:46 PM CDT (20:46 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 26, 2022, 2:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 26, 2022, 8:26 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
Counties Allen County, KS, Barton County, KS, Chase County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Rice County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:45 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 255 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
- 1579 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 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.