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Heat Advisory 2, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this heat advisory at Jul 10, 2009, 3:53 AM CDT for Barber County, Clark County, Comanche County, Kansas. It took effect at Jul 10, 2009, 2:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 10, 2009, 3:53 AM CDT (08:53 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 10, 2009, 2:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2009, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:54 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 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 2497 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -112 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2772 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this heat advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this heat advisory went out at Jul 10, 3:41 AM CDT, 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 3:41 AM CDT, 12 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 9, 4:16 AM CDT, 23 hours 37 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 416 AM CDT THU JUL 9 2009 KSZ030-031-043>046-100930- TREGO-ELLIS-SCOTT-LANE-NESS-RUSH- 416 AM CDT THU JUL 9 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN 7 PM AND 1 AM. THE MAIN THREAT IS LARGE HAIL AND LIGHTNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS LATE FRIDAY AND INTO FRIDAY NIGHT. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE BOTH POSSIBLE, BUT NOT EXPECTED TO BE WIDESPREAD. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS EVENING. && FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC KSZ061>066-074>081-084>090-100930- HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-HODGEMAN-PAWNEE-STAFFORD-STANTON-GRANT- HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA-PRATT-MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE- CLARK-COMANCHE-BARBER- 416 AM CDT THU JUL 9 2009 /316 AM MDT THU JUL 9 2009/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS LATE FRIDAY AND INTO FRIDAY NIGHT. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE BOTH POSSIBLE BUT NOT EXPECTED TO BE WIDESPREAD. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT. && FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC RUSSELL
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 10, 12:13 AM CDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1213 AM CDT FRI JUL 10 2009 KSZ045-046-065-100615- NESS-PAWNEE-RUSH- 1213 AM CDT FRI JUL 10 2009 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EASTERN NESS...NORTHERN PAWNEE AND RUSH COUNTIES... AT 1213 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR ALEXANDER...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LAT...LON 3869 9903 3823 9903 3834 9966 3854 9965 TIME...MOT...LOC 0513Z 280DEG 18KT 3843 9957 KRUSE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 12:13 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Rush | 62 min |
| Jul 10, 12:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 33 min |
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.