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Wind Advisory 6, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this wind advisory at Jan 30, 2008, 11:16 AM CST for Barber County, Comanche County, Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 30, 2008, 11:16 AM CST (17:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 30, 2008, 2:12 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Barber County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Pratt County, KS
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:15 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, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 2392 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 82 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 357 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 366 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 301716 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1116 AM CST WED JAN 30 2008 ...VERY WINDY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON... .A TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT WILL DEVELOP ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. THIS...COMBINED WITH MIXING SOME STRONG WINDS ALOFT DOWN TO THE SURFACE...WILL RESULT IN SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH. WIND GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. THESE WINDS WILL BEGIN TO SUBSIDE AFTER 4 PM AND FALL INTO THE 15 TO 20 MPH RANGE BY 6 PM. KSZ081-089-090-310000- /O.NEW.KDDC.WI.Y.0006.080130T1716Z-080131T0000Z/ PRATT-COMANCHE-BARBER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...PRATT...COLDWATER...PROTECTION... MEDICINE LODGE...KIOWA...SUN CITY 1116 AM CST WED JAN 30 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. GUSTY SOUTH WINDS AT 25 TO 35 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON. WIND GUST UP TO 45 MPH WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE THROUGH 4 PM. THESE GUSTY WINDS WILL BEGIN TO SUBSIDE TOWARDS SUNSET. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS73 KDDC 302012 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 212 PM CST WED JAN 30 2008 ...WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO DIMINISH THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON... .THE CENTER OF A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL MOVE FURTHER EAST TOWARDS CENTRAL KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THIS WILL DECREASE THE PRESSURE GRADIENT AND SOUTHERLY WINDS ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED TO REACH ADVISORY CRITERIA. KSZ081-089-090-302115- /O.CAN.KDDC.WI.Y.0006.000000T0000Z-080131T0000Z/ PRATT-COMANCHE-BARBER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...PRATT...COLDWATER...PROTECTION... MEDICINE LODGE...KIOWA...SUN CITY 212 PM CST WED JAN 30 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. SOUTH WINDS AT 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH WILL CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR SO...THEN DIMINISH DOWN TO 10 TO 15 MPH. $$ 26
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 30, 4:03 AM CST | Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Ford and 8 more | 31 hr |
| Jan 30, 11:16 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche, Pratt | 3 hr |
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.