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Wind Advisory 2, NWS Dodge City, KS

January 3, 200613 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this wind advisory at Jan 3, 2006, 1:03 PM CST for 13 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 3, 2006, 1:03 PM CST (19:03 UTC)
Expired
Jan 3, 2006, 5:31 PM CST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS

Counties Finney County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:07 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 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 103 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 12:00Z on 2006-01-03Temperature 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°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2006-01-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 72 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
3396 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WWUS73 KDDC 031903
NPWDDC

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
103 PM CST TUE JAN 3 2006

...STRONG SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS WILL BLOW THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS 
WESTERN KANSAS...

.LOW PRESSURE MOVING ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS WILL BRING A TIGHT
PRESSURE GRADIENT TO THE REGION. SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS WILL BECOME
STRONG THIS AFTERNOON...REACHING 30 MPH OR MORE WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH
POSSIBLE. THE WINDS WILL BEGIN TO DECREASE THIS EVENING AFTER THE
SUN GOES DOWN.

KSZ043-044-061>063-074>077-084>087-040000-
/O.NEW.KDDC.WI.Y.0002.060103T1903Z-060104T0000Z/
SCOTT-LANE-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-
MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SCOTT CITY...DIGHTON...SYRACUSE...
LAKIN...DEERFIELD...GARDEN CITY...KALVESTA...JOHNSON CITY...
ULYSSES...SUBLETTE...SATANTA...CIMARRON...MONTEZUMA...ELKHART...
RICHFIELD...HUGOTON...MOSCOW...LIBERAL...KISMET...MEADE...FOWLER
103 PM CST TUE JAN 3 2006 /1203 PM MST TUE JAN 3 2006/

...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST /5 PM MST/ THIS
AFTERNOON...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A WIND
ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST /5 PM MST/ THIS
AFTERNOON. 

SUSTAINED WINDS ACROSS WESTERN KANSAS WILL INCREASE TO 30 TO 35 
MPH...WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH POSSIBLE IN PLACES. THE WINDS WILL 
CONTINUE TO BLOW UNTIL EARLY EVENING...AND THEN START TO DECREASE.

MOTORISTS SHOULD USE CAUTION WHEN DRIVING IN THE WIND ADVISORY
AREA. BE ALERT TO SUDDEN GUSTS OF WIND WHICH MAY CAUSE YOU TO LOSE
CONTROL OF YOUR VEHICLE.


$$

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1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS73 KDDC 032331
NPWDDC

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
531 PM CST TUE JAN 3 2006

.WINDS HAVE SUBSIDED BELOW WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA AS THE SUN SETS
THIS EVENING. THEREFORE THE WIND ADVISORY WILL BE CANCELLED EARLY.

KSZ043-044-061>063-074>077-084>087-040045-
/O.CAN.KDDC.WI.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-060104T0000Z/
SCOTT-LANE-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-
MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SCOTT CITY...DIGHTON...SYRACUSE...
LAKIN...DEERFIELD...GARDEN CITY...KALVESTA...JOHNSON CITY...
ULYSSES...SUBLETTE...SATANTA...CIMARRON...MONTEZUMA...ELKHART...
RICHFIELD...HUGOTON...MOSCOW...LIBERAL...KISMET...MEADE...FOWLER
531 PM CST TUE JAN 3 2006 /431 PM MST TUE JAN 3 2006/

...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS CANCELLED THE WIND
ADVISORY. 

$$

LACY

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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.