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Frost Advisory 4, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

May 10, 20254 counties in Michigan

NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this frost advisory at May 10, 2025, 3:23 PM EDT for 4 counties in Michigan. It took effect at May 10, 2025, 11:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 10, 2025, 3:23 PM EDT (19:23 UTC)
In effect from
May 10, 2025, 11:00 PM EDT
Expired
May 11, 2025, 8:00 AM EDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Grand Rapids, MI

Counties Clare County, MI, Lake County, MI, Mason County, MI, Osceola County, MI

The radar

The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:21 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

Alpena, MI (KAPX), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 281 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, Alpena, MI at 12:00Z on 2025-05-10Temperature 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, Alpena, MI at 12:00Z on 2025-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1919 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 9, 11:52 PM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryGRR26 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.