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Wind Advisory 7, NWS Dodge City, KS

February 11, 200621 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this wind advisory at Feb 11, 2006, 4:14 AM CST for 21 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Feb 11, 2006, 10:00 AM CST. It was in force for 112 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 11, 2006, 4:14 AM CST (10:14 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 11, 2006, 10:00 AM CST
Expired
Feb 11, 2006, 11:52 AM CST
In force
112 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
All 21 counties

Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Trego County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:19 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 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 19 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 00:00Z on 2006-02-11Temperature 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 00:00Z on 2006-02-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -44 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
2055 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-3 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 111014
NPWDDC

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
414 AM CST SAT FEB 11 2006

...STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS TODAY ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS...

.A STRONG PRESSURE GRADIENT...BETWEEN A STORM SYSTEM IN THE
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY AND A HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE OVER THE
INTERMOUNTAIN WEST...WILL BE PRESENT IN THE LOWER AND MIDDLE
PORTIONS OF THE ATMOSPHERE TODAY ALLOWING STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS
TO PREVAIL ACROSS WESTERN KANSAS.

KSZ030-031-043>046-063>066-076>081-086>090-111815-
/O.NEW.KDDC.WI.Y.0007.060211T1600Z-060211T2200Z/
TREGO-ELLIS-SCOTT-LANE-NESS-RUSH-FINNEY-HODGEMAN-PAWNEE-STAFFORD-
HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA-PRATT-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK-COMANCHE-
BARBER-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WAKEENEY...CEDAR BLUFF RESERVOIR...
HAYS...ELLIS...SCOTT CITY...DIGHTON...NESS CITY...LA CROSSE...
RUSH CENTER...GARDEN CITY...KALVESTA...JETMORE...HANSTON...
LARNED...BURDETT...ST. JOHN...STAFFORD...HUDSON...SUBLETTE...
SATANTA...CIMARRON...MONTEZUMA...DODGE CITY...BUCKLIN...KINSLEY...
LEWIS...GREENSBURG...HAVILAND...PRATT...LIBERAL...KISMET...
MEADE...FOWLER...ASHLAND...MINNEOLA...COLDWATER...PROTECTION...
MEDICINE LODGE...KIOWA...SUN CITY
414 AM CST SAT FEB 11 2006

...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 4 PM CST
THIS AFTERNOON...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A WIND
ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 4 PM CST
THIS AFTERNOON. 

NORTHWEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE TO 25 TO 35 MPH AFTER 10
AM. THE STRONGEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO BE AROUND MIDDAY BEFORE
DECREASING THIS AFTERNOON. WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 45 MPH CAN BE
EXPECTED.

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.

$$

UMSCHEID
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS73 KDDC 111752
NPWDDC

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1152 AM CST SAT FEB 11 2006

...WINDS WILL GRADUALLY SUBSIDE THIS AFTERNOON...

.LOW PRESSURE OVER THE MIDWEST WILL PUSH FURTHER EAST THIS AFTERNOON.
SO THE WINDS ACROSS WESTERN KANSAS WILL GRADUALLY WEAKEN.

KSZ030-031-043>046-063>066-076>081-086>090-111900-
/O.CAN.KDDC.WI.Y.0007.000000T0000Z-060211T2200Z/
TREGO-ELLIS-SCOTT-LANE-NESS-RUSH-FINNEY-HODGEMAN-PAWNEE-STAFFORD-
HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA-PRATT-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK-COMANCHE-
BARBER-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WAKEENEY...CEDAR BLUFF RESERVOIR...
HAYS...ELLIS...SCOTT CITY...DIGHTON...NESS CITY...LA CROSSE...
RUSH CENTER...GARDEN CITY...KALVESTA...JETMORE...HANSTON...
LARNED...BURDETT...ST. JOHN...STAFFORD...HUDSON...SUBLETTE...
SATANTA...CIMARRON...MONTEZUMA...DODGE CITY...BUCKLIN...KINSLEY...
LEWIS...GREENSBURG...HAVILAND...PRATT...LIBERAL...KISMET...
MEADE...FOWLER...ASHLAND...MINNEOLA...COLDWATER...PROTECTION...
MEDICINE LODGE...KIOWA...SUN CITY
1152 AM CST SAT FEB 11 2006

...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...

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

SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS WILL REMAIN BELOW 30 MPH THIS AFTERNOON. THUS
THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

$$

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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.