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Frost Advisory 3, NWS Louisville, KY

April 9, 20228 counties in Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this frost advisory at Apr 9, 2022, 1:53 PM CDT for 8 counties in Kentucky. It took effect at Apr 10, 2022, 12:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 9, 2022, 1:53 PM CDT (18:53 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 10, 2022, 12:00 AM CDT
Expired
Apr 10, 2022, 7:59 AM CDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY

Counties Allen County, KY, Butler County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Logan County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Warren County, KY

The radar

The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:56 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

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 378 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 2022-04-09Temperature 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 2022-04-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 81 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
1140 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
128 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 9, 1:53 PM CDTFreeze WarningLMKAdair, Anderson, Barren, Bourbon, Boyle, Breckinridge and 35 more18 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.