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Frost Advisory 4, NWS Wichita, KS

October 16, 20225 counties in Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this frost advisory at Oct 16, 2022, 2:24 PM CDT for 5 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Oct 17, 2022, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 16, 2022, 2:24 PM CDT (19:24 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 17, 2022, 1:00 AM CDT
Expired
Oct 17, 2022, 10:00 AM CDT
In force
9 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 19:24 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, 7.4 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2022-10-16Temperature 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2022-10-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -46 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1435 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-12 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 15, 9:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTElk45 min
Oct 15, 9:54 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTCowley51 min
Oct 15, 10:35 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTButler40 min
Oct 15, 11:08 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTSumner52 min
Oct 15, 11:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTSumner48 min
Oct 15, 11:43 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTSedgwick47 min
Oct 16, 3:04 AM CDTFreeze WatchICTAllen, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Elk and 15 more11 hr
Oct 16, 2:24 PM CDTFreeze WarningICTAllen, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley and 20 more44 hr
Oct 16, 3:41 PM CDTFreeze WatchICTCowley, Harper, Kingman, Sedgwick, Sumner24 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.