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Frost Advisory 1, NWS Topeka, KS

April 13, 20225 counties in Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this frost advisory at Apr 13, 2022, 2:39 PM CDT for 5 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, 2:39 PM CDT (19:39 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 Topeka, KS

Counties Anderson County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Osage County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:40 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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 56 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 Topeka, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this frost advisory went out at Apr 13, 12:28 PM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 13, 12:28 PM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 13, 6:11 AM CDT, 8 hours 28 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 13, 2:24 PM CDT, 15 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 12, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud, Republic, Washington	46 min
Apr 12, 7:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Cloud	39 min
Apr 12, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ottawa	47 min
Apr 12, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Cloud, Republic, Washington	47 min
Apr 12, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Cloud, Riley	45 min
Apr 12, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ottawa	49 min
Apr 12, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall, Washington	48 min
Apr 12, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Geary, Riley	45 min
Apr 12, 9:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Dickinson	47 min
Apr 12, 9:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Marshall, Nemaha, Washington	39 min
Apr 12, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson	31 min
Apr 12, 9:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Pottawatomie, Riley	28 min
Apr 12, 9:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Geary	48 min
Apr 12, 10:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Dickinson	43 min
Apr 12, 10:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Nemaha	37 min
Apr 12, 10:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Brown	30 min
Apr 13, 2:16 AM CDT	Freeze Warning	TOP	Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Jackson and 12 more	31 hr
Apr 13, 2:31 PM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	TOP	Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Douglas, Geary and 11 more	12 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.