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Frost Advisory 4, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this frost advisory at May 5, 2026, 1:08 PM CDT for 6 counties in Wisconsin; 8 counties in Iowa; 7 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at May 6, 2026, 2:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 2026, 1:08 PM CDT (18:08 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 6, 2026, 2:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- May 6, 2026, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
All 21 counties
Allamakee County, IA, Chickasaw County, IA, Clayton County, IA, Fayette County, IA, Floyd County, IA, Howard County, IA, Mitchell County, IA, Winneshiek County, IA, Dodge County, MN, Fillmore County, MN, Houston County, MN, Mower County, MN, Olmsted County, MN, Wabasha County, MN, Winona County, MN, Buffalo County, WI, Crawford County, WI, Grant County, WI, La Crosse County, WI, Richland County, WI, Vernon County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 1487 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 78 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 1:08 PM CDT | Freeze Warning | ARX | Adams, Clark, Jackson, Juneau, Monroe, Taylor and 1 more | 19 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.