Alert archive / Kansas / Winter Storm Watches in 2006
Winter Storm Watch 5, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this winter storm watch at Dec 28, 2006, 4:10 AM CST for 13 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Dec 28, 2006, 7:07 PM CST. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 28, 2006, 4:10 AM CST (10:10 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 28, 2006, 7:07 PM CST
- Expired
- Dec 29, 2006, 12:47 PM CST
- In force
- 18 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 10:10 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 304 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
- 2340 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
Winter Storm Watches in Kansas, 2006Every winter storm watch 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.