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Wind Advisory 12, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 22, 20076 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this wind advisory at May 22, 2007, 10:09 AM CDT for 6 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 22, 2007, 10:09 AM CDT (15:09 UTC)
Expired
May 22, 2007, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS

Counties Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ford County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:10 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 33 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 2007-05-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 77 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2007-05-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 218 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
77 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-456 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1151 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
218 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
469 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 221509
NPWDDC

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1009 AM CDT TUE MAY 22 2007

...STORM SYSTEM BRINGS GUSTY SOUTH WINDS...

.SURFACE LOW PRESSURE WILL DEVELOP OVER WESTERN KANSAS THIS
AFTERNOON. AHEAD OF THE FRONT...GUSTY SOUTH WINDS WILL
CONTINUE.

KSZ064-078>080-088-089-222315-
/O.NEW.KDDC.WI.Y.0012.070522T1509Z-070523T0000Z/
HODGEMAN-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA-CLARK-COMANCHE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JETMORE...HANSTON...DODGE CITY...
BUCKLIN...KINSLEY...LEWIS...GREENSBURG...HAVILAND...ASHLAND...
MINNEOLA...COLDWATER...PROTECTION
1009 AM CDT TUE MAY 22 2007

...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. 

SOUTH WINDS AT 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 45 MPH WILL
CONTINUE THROUGH 7 PM.

WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR
HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION.

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 21, 7:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray28 min

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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.