Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2008
Wind Advisory 7, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this wind advisory at Feb 13, 2008, 1:23 PM CST for 11 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 13, 2008, 1:23 PM CST (19:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 13, 2008, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Clark County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Rush County, KS, Seward County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 12 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 6 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
- 1748 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 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 131923 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 123 PM CST WED FEB 13 2008 ...VERY WINDY CONDITIONS WILL OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON... .A STRONG SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENT WILL EXIST ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. THIS...COMBINED WITH MIXING OF STRONG WINDS OFF THE SURFACE WILL RESULT IN WIND SPEEDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH. SOME GUSTS TO 45 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE. THE WINDS SHOULD BEGIN TO SUBSIDE TOWARD SUNSET. KSZ045-046-064-065-077>080-086>088-140000- /O.NEW.KDDC.WI.Y.0007.080213T1923Z-080214T0000Z/ NESS-RUSH-HODGEMAN-PAWNEE-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA-SEWARD-MEADE- CLARK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NESS CITY...LA CROSSE...RUSH CENTER... JETMORE...HANSTON...LARNED...BURDETT...CIMARRON...MONTEZUMA... DODGE CITY...BUCKLIN...KINSLEY...LEWIS...GREENSBURG...HAVILAND... LIBERAL...KISMET...MEADE...FOWLER...ASHLAND...MINNEOLA 123 PM CST WED FEB 13 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. THE WINDS SHOULD SUBSIDE INTO THE 15 TO 25 MPH RANGE BY 6 PM. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$ GERARD
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS73 KDDC 132357 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 557 PM CST WED FEB 13 2008 KSZ045-046-064-065-077>080-086>088-140100- /O.EXP.KDDC.WI.Y.0007.000000T0000Z-080214T0000Z/ NESS-RUSH-HODGEMAN-PAWNEE-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA-SEWARD-MEADE- CLARK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NESS CITY...LA CROSSE...RUSH CENTER... JETMORE...HANSTON...LARNED...BURDETT...CIMARRON...MONTEZUMA... DODGE CITY...BUCKLIN...KINSLEY...LEWIS...GREENSBURG...HAVILAND... LIBERAL...KISMET...MEADE...FOWLER...ASHLAND...MINNEOLA 557 PM CST WED FEB 13 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. GUSTY SOUTH WINDS WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH DURING THE EVENING HOURS. THEREFORE...THE ADVISORY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 2:50 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | DDC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Hamilton and 7 more | 16 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.