Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2008
Wind Advisory 33, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this wind advisory at Jul 12, 2008, 9:09 AM CDT for 9 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 12, 2008, 9:09 AM CDT (14:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 2008, 12:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Clark County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Meade County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:10 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 297 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -229 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1254 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS73 KDDC 121409 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 909 AM CDT SAT JUL 12 2008 ...STRONG WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED THIS MORNING... .A SURFACE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER NORTHWESTERN OKLAHOMA WILL MOVE INTO WEST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA BY LATE MORNING...AND A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH SOUTHWARD INTO OKLAHOMA AND THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. A TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT NORTHWEST OF THE SURFACE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL RESULT IN STRONG WINDS ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS FOR A FEW HOURS THIS MORNING. KSZ063-075>078-085>088-121700- /O.NEW.KDDC.WI.Y.0033.080712T1409Z-080712T1700Z/ FINNEY-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GARDEN CITY...KALVESTA...ULYSSES... SUBLETTE...SATANTA...CIMARRON...MONTEZUMA...DODGE CITY... BUCKLIN...HUGOTON...MOSCOW...LIBERAL...KISMET...MEADE...FOWLER... ASHLAND...MINNEOLA 909 AM CDT SAT JUL 12 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CDT TODAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CDT TODAY. SUSTAINED NORTH WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FOR A FEW HOURS THIS MORNING. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION.TAKE ACTION TO SECURE TRASH CANS...LAWN FURNITURE...AND OTHER LOOSE OR LIGHTWEIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS. THE STRONG WINDS WILL PRODUCE DIFFICULT TRAVEL CONDITIONS...SO USE EXTRA CAUTION WHEN DRIVING. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS73 KDDC 121653 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1153 AM CDT SAT JUL 12 2008 ...WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO DIMINISH SLOWLY... .A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE SOUTHWARD ACROSS OKLAHOMA THIS AFTERNOON...AND HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD OVER WESTERN KANSAS. WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO DIMINISH SLOWLY THIS AFTERNOON. KSZ063-075>078-085>088-121800- /O.EXP.KDDC.WI.Y.0033.000000T0000Z-080712T1700Z/ FINNEY-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GARDEN CITY...KALVESTA...ULYSSES... SUBLETTE...SATANTA...CIMARRON...MONTEZUMA...DODGE CITY... BUCKLIN...HUGOTON...MOSCOW...LIBERAL...KISMET...MEADE...FOWLER... ASHLAND...MINNEOLA 1153 AM CDT SAT JUL 12 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT NOON CDT TODAY... THE WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT NOON CDT TODAY. NORTH WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH GRADUALLY WILL DIMINISH TO LESS THAN 10 MPH BY EVENING. $$
Nearby
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.