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Frost Advisory 1, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this frost advisory at May 8, 2025, 12:52 PM CDT for 17 counties in Wisconsin. It took effect at May 9, 2025, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 2025, 12:52 PM CDT (17:52 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 9, 2025, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- May 9, 2025, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
Counties Columbia County, WI, Dane County, WI, Dodge County, WI, Fond du Lac County, WI, Green County, WI, Green Lake County, WI, Iowa County, WI, Jefferson County, WI, Kenosha County, WI, Marquette County, WI, Racine County, WI, Rock County, WI, Sauk County, WI, Sheboygan County, WI, Walworth County, WI, Washington County, WI, Waukesha County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:50 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
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 155 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 976 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.