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Frost Advisory 2, NWS Goodland, KS

October 18, 20258 counties in Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this frost advisory at Oct 18, 2025, 1:20 AM CDT for 8 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Oct 18, 2025, 10:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 18, 2025, 1:20 AM CDT (06:20 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 18, 2025, 10:00 PM CDT
Expired
Oct 19, 2025, 9:58 AM CDT
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS

Counties Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Logan County, KS, Norton County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wichita County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:17 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 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 174 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 00:00Z on 2025-10-18Temperature 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 00:00Z on 2025-10-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 44 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
1923 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
174 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 18, 1:20 AM CDTFreeze WarningGLDCheyenne, Greeley, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace33 hr
Oct 18, 2:44 PM CDTFire Weather WatchGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma23 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.