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Frost Advisory 3, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

May 6, 202612 counties in South Dakota; Lincoln County, Pipestone County, Minnesota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this frost advisory at May 6, 2026, 1:15 PM CDT for 12 counties in South Dakota; Lincoln County, Pipestone County, Minnesota. It took effect at May 7, 2026, 3:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 6, 2026, 1:15 PM CDT (18:15 UTC)
In effect from: May 7, 2026, 3:00 AM CDT
Expired: May 7, 2026, 8:00 AM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Sioux Falls, SD

Counties Lincoln County, MN, Pipestone County, MN, Aurora County, SD, Beadle County, SD, Brookings County, SD, Brule County, SD, Davison County, SD, Hanson County, SD, Jerauld County, SD, Kingsbury County, SD, Lake County, SD, Miner County, SD, Moody County, SD, Sanborn County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:20 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 332 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: 1327 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -24 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 Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before this frost advisory went out at May 5, 6:21 PM CDT, 18 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 5, 6:21 PM CDT, 18 hours 54 minutes before

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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.