Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2008
Wind Advisory 11, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this wind advisory at Mar 3, 2008, 10:07 AM CST for 8 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 3, 2008, 10:07 AM CST (16:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2008, 3:34 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Ford County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Seward County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:11 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 1233 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 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 031607 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1007 AM CST MON MAR 3 2008 ...VERY WINDY CONDITONS CAN BE EXEPCTED THROUGH THE EARLY AFTERNOON... .STRONG WINDS JUST ABOVE THE SURFACE WILL MIX DOWN TO THE GROUND THIS MORNING. THIS WILL RESULT IN VERY WINDY CONDITIONS OVER PARTS OF SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THESE GUSTY WINDS WILL BEGIN TO GRADUALLY SUBSIDE EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. KSZ078-080-081-086>090-032000- /O.NEW.KDDC.WI.Y.0011.080303T1607Z-080303T2000Z/ FORD-KIOWA-PRATT-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK-COMANCHE-BARBER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...DODGE CITY...BUCKLIN...GREENSBURG... HAVILAND...PRATT...LIBERAL...KISMET...MEADE...FOWLER...ASHLAND... MINNEOLA...COLDWATER...PROTECTION...MEDICINE LODGE...KIOWA... SUN CITY 1007 AM CST MON MAR 3 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. NORTHWEST WINDS AT 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 45 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH THE EARLY AFTERNOON. THESE GUSTY WINDS WILL THEN BEGIN TO SLOWLY SUBSIDE BUT REMAIN IN THE 20 TO 30 MPH RANGE THROUGH SUNSET. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$ 18/26
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS73 KDDC 031927 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 127 PM CST MON MAR 3 2008 ...VERY WINDY CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON... .A TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT WILL REMAIN IN PLACE OVER PARTS OF SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON RESULTING IN GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS AT 30 TO 35 MPH. THESE GUSTY WINDS WILL BEGIN TO GRADUALLY SUBSIDE TOWARDS SUNSET. KSZ078-080-081-086>090-040000- /O.EXT.KDDC.WI.Y.0011.000000T0000Z-080304T0000Z/ FORD-KIOWA-PRATT-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK-COMANCHE-BARBER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...DODGE CITY...BUCKLIN...GREENSBURG... HAVILAND...PRATT...LIBERAL...KISMET...MEADE...FOWLER...ASHLAND... MINNEOLA...COLDWATER...PROTECTION...MEDICINE LODGE...KIOWA... SUN CITY 127 PM CST MON MAR 3 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE WIND ADVISORY IS NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. NORTHWEST WINDS AT 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 45 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. THESE GUSTY WINDS WILL THEN BEGIN TO FALL BACK INTO THE 10 TO 20 MPH BY SUNSET. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$
000 WWUS73 KDDC 032134 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 334 PM CST MON MAR 3 2008 ...WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO DECREASE ACROSS THE REGION... .A STORM SYSTEM WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE OUT THE EASTERN PLAINS INTO THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY THIS EVENING. THIS WILL ALLOW THE TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT TO RELAX ACROSS WESTERN KANSAS. THERE WILL ALSO BE LESS MIXING OF HIGHER WINDS FROM ALOFT AS THE SUN GOES DOWN. WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO DECREASE THROUGH THE EVENING...BECOMING LIGHT OVERNIGHT. KSZ078-080-081-086>090-032245- /O.CAN.KDDC.WI.Y.0011.000000T0000Z-080304T0000Z/ FORD-KIOWA-PRATT-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK-COMANCHE-BARBER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...DODGE CITY...BUCKLIN...GREENSBURG... HAVILAND...PRATT...LIBERAL...KISMET...MEADE...FOWLER...ASHLAND... MINNEOLA...COLDWATER...PROTECTION...MEDICINE LODGE...KIOWA... SUN CITY 334 PM CST MON MAR 3 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. NORTH WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO DECREASE FROM 25 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 35 MPH IN THE EARLY EVENING...TO LESS THAN 10 MPH AFTER 9 PM CST. $$ 26
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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.