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High Wind Warning 5, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this high wind warning at May 8, 2008, 7:11 PM CDT for 8 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 2 hr. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 2008, 7:11 PM CDT (00:11 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2008, 9:24 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Clark County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Meade County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:14 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 7:24 PM CDT | NON-TSTM WND DMG | Liberal, KS | BRIEF STRONG WINDS BLEW OUT WINDOWS IN ABOUT A DOZEN CARS AND A SCHOOL. ALSO WRAPPED A TRACK MAT AROUND SOME BLEACHERS. |
| May 8, 8:00 PM CDT | NON-TSTM WND GST 60 | 7 Ne Englewood, KS |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 64 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
- 926 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1412 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 86 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 581 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 855 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.4
- Supercell composite
- 20.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS73 KDDC 090011 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 711 PM CDT THU MAY 8 2008 ...HIGH WINDS EXPECTED THIS EVENING... .A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE RAPIDLY SOUTHEASTWARD ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS WITH HIGH WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH WITH SOME GUSTS OVER 60 MPH. KSZ063-076>078-086-087-090300- /O.NEW.KDDC.HW.W.0005.080509T0011Z-080509T0300Z/ FINNEY-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-SEWARD-MEADE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GARDEN CITY...KALVESTA...SUBLETTE... SATANTA...CIMARRON...MONTEZUMA...DODGE CITY...BUCKLIN...LIBERAL... KISMET...MEADE...FOWLER 711 PM CDT THU MAY 8 2008 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING. EXPECT WINDS TO SHIFT TO THE NORTH TO NORTHWEST AND INCREASE TO 35 TO 45 MPH WITH SOME GUSTS OVER 60 MPH. A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS THAT THE WINDS COULD CREATE LIFE THREATENING CONDITIONS TO THOSE OUTSIDE OR CAUSE MAJOR PROPERTY DAMAGE. $$ 06
3 follow-up statements
000 WWUS73 KDDC 090016 AAA NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 716 PM CDT THU MAY 8 2008 ...HIGH WINDS EXPECTED THIS EVENING... .A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE RAPIDLY SOUTHEASTWARD ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS WITH HIGH WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH WITH SOME GUSTS OVER 60 MPH. KSZ063-076>078-086-087-090300- /O.CON.KDDC.HW.W.0005.000000T0000Z-080509T0300Z/ FINNEY-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-SEWARD-MEADE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GARDEN CITY...KALVESTA...SUBLETTE... SATANTA...CIMARRON...MONTEZUMA...DODGE CITY...BUCKLIN...LIBERAL... KISMET...MEADE...FOWLER 716 PM CDT THU MAY 8 2008 ...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING... A HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING. EXPECT WINDS TO SHIFT TO THE NORTH TO NORTHWEST AND INCREASE TO 35 TO 45 MPH WITH SOME GUSTS OVER 60 MPH. A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS THAT THE WINDS COULD CREATE LIFE THREATENING CONDITIONS TO THOSE OUTSIDE OR CAUSE MAJOR PROPERTY DAMAGE. $$ 06
000 WWUS73 KDDC 090026 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 726 PM CDT THU MAY 8 2008 ...HIGH WINDS EXPECTED THIS EVENING... .A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE RAPIDLY SOUTHEASTWARD ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS WITH HIGH WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH WITH SOME GUSTS OVER 60 MPH. KSZ085-088-090300- /O.EXA.KDDC.HW.W.0005.000000T0000Z-080509T0300Z/ STEVENS-CLARK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HUGOTON...MOSCOW...ASHLAND...MINNEOLA 726 PM CDT THU MAY 8 2008 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING. EXPECT WINDS TO SHIFT TO THE NORTH TO NORTHWEST AND INCREASE TO 35 TO 45 MPH WITH SOME GUSTS OVER 60 MPH. A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS THAT THE WINDS COULD CREATE LIFE THREATENING CONDITIONS TO THOSE OUTSIDE OR CAUSE MAJOR PROPERTY DAMAGE. $$ KSZ063-076>078-086-087-090300- /O.CON.KDDC.HW.W.0005.000000T0000Z-080509T0300Z/ FINNEY-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-SEWARD-MEADE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GARDEN CITY...KALVESTA...SUBLETTE... SATANTA...CIMARRON...MONTEZUMA...DODGE CITY...BUCKLIN...LIBERAL... KISMET...MEADE...FOWLER 726 PM CDT THU MAY 8 2008 ...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING... A HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING. EXPECT WINDS TO SHIFT TO THE NORTH TO NORTHWEST AND INCREASE TO 35 TO 45 MPH WITH SOME GUSTS OVER 60 MPH. A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS THAT THE WINDS COULD CREATE LIFE THREATENING CONDITIONS TO THOSE OUTSIDE OR CAUSE MAJOR PROPERTY DAMAGE. $$ 06
000 WWUS73 KDDC 090224 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 924 PM CDT THU MAY 8 2008 ...HIGH WINDS ARE DECREASING... .AS THE COLD FRONT CONTINUES TO MOVE SOUTHEAST THE STRONG WINDS WERE DECREASING. KSZ063-076>078-085>088-090330- /O.CAN.KDDC.HW.W.0005.000000T0000Z-080509T0300Z/ FINNEY-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GARDEN CITY...KALVESTA...SUBLETTE... SATANTA...CIMARRON...MONTEZUMA...DODGE CITY...BUCKLIN...HUGOTON... MOSCOW...LIBERAL...KISMET...MEADE...FOWLER...ASHLAND...MINNEOLA 924 PM CDT THU MAY 8 2008 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH WIND WARNING. HIGH WINDS OF UP TO 60 MPH ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED AS THE COLD FRONT MOVES OUT OF THE AREA. HOWEVER...GUSTY NORTH WINDS WILL CONTINUE AT 15 TO 25 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS UNTIL MIDNIGHT. $$ 06
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 7:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Hodgeman | 45 min |
| May 8, 7:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Hodgeman | 44 min |
| May 8, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 28 min |
| May 8, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford | 64 min |
| May 8, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Kiowa, Pratt | 45 min |
| May 8, 8:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Clark, Comanche | 56 min |
| May 8, 8:40 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DDC | Finney, Hodgeman, Pawnee | 8 hr |
| May 8, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford | 64 min |
| May 8, 9:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Barber, Comanche | 76 min |
| May 8, 9:55 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pratt, Stafford | 6 hr |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.