Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2008
Wind Advisory 34, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this wind advisory at Aug 31, 2008, 1:34 PM CDT for 12 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 31, 2008, 1:34 PM CDT (18:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2008, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Finney County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Morton County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:38 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -136 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1209 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -64 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 311834 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 134 PM CDT SUN AUG 31 2008 ...GUSTY SOUTH WINDS WILL BUFFET SOUTHWEST KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON... .A STRONG SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENT OVER FAR WESTERN KANSAS HAS RESULTED IN STRONG AND GUSTY SOUTH WINDS. THE WINDS SHOULD BE DIMINISHING TOWARD SUNSET. KSZ043-044-061>063-074>077-084>086-010100- /O.NEW.KDDC.WI.Y.0034.080831T1834Z-080901T0100Z/ SCOTT-LANE-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY- MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SCOTT CITY...DIGHTON...SYRACUSE... LAKIN...DEERFIELD...GARDEN CITY...KALVESTA...JOHNSON CITY... ULYSSES...SUBLETTE...SATANTA...CIMARRON...MONTEZUMA...ELKHART... RICHFIELD...HUGOTON...MOSCOW...LIBERAL...KISMET 134 PM CDT SUN AUG 31 2008 /1234 PM MDT SUN AUG 31 2008/ ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT /7 PM MDT/ THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT /7 PM MDT/ THIS EVENING. SUSTAINED SOUTH WINDS AT AROUND 30 MPH WITH GUSTS EXCEEDING 45 MPH AT TIMES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HOURS. THE WINDS SHOULD BEGIN TO DIMINISH INTO THE 15 TO 25 MPH RANGE BEFORE SUNSET. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION ESPECIALLY WHEN DRIVING NEAR GRAIN ELEVATORS. $$ GERARD
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS73 KDDC 010055 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 755 PM CDT SUN AUG 31 2008 ...SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO DIMINISH THIS EVENING... .AS THE SUN GOES DOWN...MIXING THAT HAS BROUGHT STRONG WINDS FROM THE UPPER LEVELS TO THE SURFACE HAS DECREASED. BREEZY CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE OVERNIGHT AS A LEE TROUGH REMAINS OVER THE WESTERN PLAINS...BUT WINDS WILL NOT BE AT ADVISORY CRITERIA TONIGHT. KSZ043-044-061>063-074>077-084>086-010200- /O.EXP.KDDC.WI.Y.0034.000000T0000Z-080901T0100Z/ SCOTT-LANE-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY- MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SCOTT CITY...DIGHTON...SYRACUSE... LAKIN...DEERFIELD...GARDEN CITY...KALVESTA...JOHNSON CITY... ULYSSES...SUBLETTE...SATANTA...CIMARRON...MONTEZUMA...ELKHART... RICHFIELD...HUGOTON...MOSCOW...LIBERAL...KISMET 755 PM CDT SUN AUG 31 2008 /655 PM MDT SUN AUG 31 2008/ ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM CDT /7 PM MDT/ THIS EVENING... THE WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM CDT /7 PM MDT/ THIS EVENING. WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO DECREASE INTO THE 15 TO 25 MPH RANGE OVERNIGHT. $$ 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.