Alert archive / Kansas / High Wind Warnings in 2008
High Wind Warning 1, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this high wind warning at Jan 28, 2008, 2:13 PM CST for 5 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 28, 2008, 2:13 PM CST (20:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 28, 2008, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Meade County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:12 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 1922 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 442 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 408 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS73 KDDC 282013 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 213 PM CST MON JAN 28 2008 ...STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL BLOW THIS AFTERNOON... .A STRONG PRESSURE GRADIENT AT THE SURFACE IN PLACE ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS WILL RESULT IN STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS THIS AFTERNOON. STRONG WINDS OFF THE SURFACE WILL ALSO MIX DOWN AS TEMPERATURES WARM THROUGH THE DAY. THE PRESSURE GRADIENT WILL BEGIN TO WEAKEN TOWARDS EVENING. KSZ085>089-290000- /O.UPG.KDDC.WI.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-080129T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KDDC.HW.W.0001.080128T2013Z-080129T0000Z/ STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK-COMANCHE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HUGOTON...MOSCOW...LIBERAL...KISMET... MEADE...FOWLER...ASHLAND...MINNEOLA...COLDWATER...PROTECTION 213 PM CST MON JAN 28 2008 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. THE WIND ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. VERY STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE AT 35 TO 45 MPH THIS AFTERNOON. WIND GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED. STRONG WINDS WILL PRODUCE AREAS OF BLOWING DUST. VISIBILITIES WILL BE REDUCED TO LESS THAN ONE MILE AT TIMES...ESPECIALLY NEAR OPEN FIELDS. IF YOU ARE DRIVING AND VISIBILITY SUDDENLY DROPS...SLOW DOWN. IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO SEE...PULL SAFELY OFF THE ROAD AND WAIT FOR VISIBILITY TO IMPROVE. A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS THAT THE WINDS COULD CREATE LIFE THREATENING CONDITIONS TO THOSE OUTSIDE OR CAUSE MAJOR PROPERTY DAMAGE. $$ KSZ043>046-061>066-074>081-084-090-290000- /O.CON.KDDC.WI.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-080129T0000Z/ SCOTT-LANE-NESS-RUSH-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-HODGEMAN-PAWNEE- STAFFORD-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA-PRATT- MORTON-BARBER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SCOTT CITY...DIGHTON...NESS CITY... LA CROSSE...RUSH CENTER...SYRACUSE...LAKIN...DEERFIELD... GARDEN CITY...KALVESTA...JETMORE...HANSTON...LARNED...BURDETT... ST. JOHN...STAFFORD...HUDSON...JOHNSON CITY...ULYSSES... SUBLETTE...SATANTA...CIMARRON...MONTEZUMA...DODGE CITY... BUCKLIN...KINSLEY...LEWIS...GREENSBURG...HAVILAND...PRATT... ELKHART...RICHFIELD...MEDICINE LODGE...KIOWA...SUN CITY 213 PM CST MON JAN 28 2008 /113 PM MST MON JAN 28 2008/ ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST /5 PM MST/ THIS AFTERNOON... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST /5 PM MST/ THIS AFTERNOON. GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE AT 30 TO 35 MPH THIS AFTERNOON. WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL ALSO BE LIKELY. THESE STRONG WINDS WILL ALSO CREATE PERIODS OF BLOWING DUST WHICH WILL REDUCE VISIBILITES TO ONE MILE OR LESS AT TIMES. THE STRONG WINDS WILL BEGIN TO SUBSIDE TO BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA BY 6 PM THIS EVENING. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$ BURGERT
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS73 KDDC 290001 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 601 PM CST MON JAN 28 2008 KSZ085>089-290115- /O.EXP.KDDC.HW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-080129T0000Z/ STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK-COMANCHE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HUGOTON...MOSCOW...LIBERAL...KISMET... MEADE...FOWLER...ASHLAND...MINNEOLA...COLDWATER...PROTECTION 601 PM CST MON JAN 28 2008 ...HIGH WIND WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE HIGH WIND WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. WINDS WILL DECREASE THIS EVENING. WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO RETURN TO SOUTHWEST KANSAS AGAIN TOWARD MORNING. $$ KSZ043>046-061>066-074>081-084-090-290115- /O.EXP.KDDC.WI.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-080129T0000Z/ SCOTT-LANE-NESS-RUSH-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-HODGEMAN-PAWNEE- STAFFORD-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA-PRATT- MORTON-BARBER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SCOTT CITY...DIGHTON...NESS CITY... LA CROSSE...RUSH CENTER...SYRACUSE...LAKIN...DEERFIELD... GARDEN CITY...KALVESTA...JETMORE...HANSTON...LARNED...BURDETT... ST. JOHN...STAFFORD...HUDSON...JOHNSON CITY...ULYSSES... SUBLETTE...SATANTA...CIMARRON...MONTEZUMA...DODGE CITY... BUCKLIN...KINSLEY...LEWIS...GREENSBURG...HAVILAND...PRATT... ELKHART...RICHFIELD...MEDICINE LODGE...KIOWA...SUN CITY 601 PM CST MON JAN 28 2008 /501 PM MST MON JAN 28 2008/ ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM CST /5 PM MST/ THIS AFTERNOON... THE WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM CST /5 PM MST/ THIS AFTERNOON. WINDS WILL DECREASE THIS EVENING. WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO RETURN TO SOUTHWEST KANSAS AGAIN TOWARD MORNING. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 28, 4:08 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | DDC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Hamilton and 12 more | 14 hr |
Nearby
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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.