Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2006

Wind Advisory 29, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 20, 200615 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this wind advisory at Jun 20, 2006, 10:10 AM CDT for 15 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 20, 2006, 10:10 AM CDT (15:10 UTC)
Expired
Jun 20, 2006, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS

Counties Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rush County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:09 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 25 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 2006-06-20Temperature 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 2006-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 282 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
2819 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
282 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
455 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WWUS73 KDDC 201510
NPWDDC

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1010 AM CDT TUE JUN 20 2006

...STRONG AND GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL PERSIST ACROSS PARTS OF
SOUTHWEST KANSAS TODAY...

.A DEEPENING SURFACE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER NORTHEAST COLORADO
COMBINED WITH HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY HAS
RESULTED IN A STRONG PRESSURE GRADIENT OVER KANSAS. THIS WILL
RESULT IN STRONG SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS THROUGH THE DAY. THE WINDS
SHOULD BEGIN TO SUBSIDE BY EARLY EVENING.

KSZ031-045-046-064>066-077>081-086>089-202315-
/O.NEW.KDDC.WI.Y.0029.060620T1510Z-060621T0000Z/
ELLIS-NESS-RUSH-HODGEMAN-PAWNEE-STAFFORD-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA-
PRATT-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK-COMANCHE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HAYS...ELLIS...NESS CITY...LA CROSSE...
RUSH CENTER...JETMORE...HANSTON...LARNED...BURDETT...ST. JOHN...
STAFFORD...HUDSON...CIMARRON...MONTEZUMA...DODGE CITY...BUCKLIN...
KINSLEY...LEWIS...GREENSBURG...HAVILAND...PRATT...LIBERAL...
KISMET...MEADE...FOWLER...ASHLAND...MINNEOLA...COLDWATER...
PROTECTION
1010 AM CDT TUE JUN 20 2006

...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A WIND
ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. 

SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL BE SUSTAINED AT 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45
MPH AT TIMES THROUGH THE DAY. THE WINDS SHOULD DECREASE INTO THE
15 TO 25 MPH RANGE AS SUNSET APPROACHES. 

A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF OVER 30 MPH OR WIND
GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE
DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE
EXTRA CAUTION.

$$

GERARD
2 follow-up statements
000 
WWUS73 KDDC 202017
NPWDDC

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
317 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 2006

...STRONG AND GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL PERSIST ACROSS PARTS OF
SOUTHWEST KANSAS TODAY...

.A DEEPENING SURFACE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER NORTHEAST COLORADO
COMBINED WITH HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY HAS
RESULTED IN STRONG SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS INTO EARLY EVENING. THE
WINDS SHOULD BEGIN TO SUBSIDE BY AROUND 7:00 PM CDT.

KSZ031-045-046-064>066-077>081-086>089-210000-
/O.CON.KDDC.WI.Y.0029.000000T0000Z-060621T0000Z/
ELLIS-NESS-RUSH-HODGEMAN-PAWNEE-STAFFORD-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA-
PRATT-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK-COMANCHE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HAYS...ELLIS...NESS CITY...LA CROSSE...
RUSH CENTER...JETMORE...HANSTON...LARNED...BURDETT...ST. JOHN...
STAFFORD...HUDSON...CIMARRON...MONTEZUMA...DODGE CITY...BUCKLIN...
KINSLEY...LEWIS...GREENSBURG...HAVILAND...PRATT...LIBERAL...
KISMET...MEADE...FOWLER...ASHLAND...MINNEOLA...COLDWATER...
PROTECTION
317 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 2006

...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING...

A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. 

SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL BE SUSTAINED AT 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO
45 MPH AT TIMES. THE WINDS SHOULD DECREASE INTO THE 15 TO 25 MPH
RANGE AS SUNSET APPROACHES.

A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF OVER 30 MPH OR WIND
GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN
MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES.
USE EXTRA CAUTION.

$$

JOHNSON
000 
WWUS73 KDDC 202358
NPWDDC

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
658 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 2006

...WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO DIMINISH ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS...

.WINDS HAVE FALLEN BELOW WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA IN MOST AREAS AND
WILL CONTINUE TO GRADUALLY DIMINISH THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS.
WINDS FOR THE REST OF TONIGHT WILL REMAIN BREEZY IN THE 15 TO 25
MPH RANGE.

KSZ031-045-046-064>066-077>081-086>089-210100-
/O.EXP.KDDC.WI.Y.0029.000000T0000Z-060621T0000Z/
ELLIS-NESS-RUSH-HODGEMAN-PAWNEE-STAFFORD-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA-
PRATT-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK-COMANCHE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HAYS...ELLIS...NESS CITY...LA CROSSE...
RUSH CENTER...JETMORE...HANSTON...LARNED...BURDETT...ST. JOHN...
STAFFORD...HUDSON...CIMARRON...MONTEZUMA...DODGE CITY...BUCKLIN...
KINSLEY...LEWIS...GREENSBURG...HAVILAND...PRATT...LIBERAL...
KISMET...MEADE...FOWLER...ASHLAND...MINNEOLA...COLDWATER...
PROTECTION
658 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 2006

...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING...

THE WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. 

$$

Nearby

Wind Advisories in Kansas, 2006Every wind advisory in 2006

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.