Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2009
Wind Advisory 13, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this wind advisory at Mar 9, 2009, 3:27 PM CDT for 9 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Mar 9, 2009, 6:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 9, 2009, 3:27 PM CDT (20:27 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 9, 2009, 6:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 9, 2009, 8:12 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Clark County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Meade County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 63 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
- 3560 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 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 092027 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 327 PM CDT MON MAR 9 2009 ...STRONG GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS THIS AFTERNOON... .A DEEPENING SURFACE LOW ACROSS SOUTHEAST COLORADO IS CREATING A TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT ACROSS WESTERN KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. DAYTIME HEATING HAS ALLOWED STRONG WINDS ALOFT TO MIX DOWN ALLOWING SURFACE WIND SPEEDS TO INCREASE TO 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH. KSZ064-075>078-085>088-100000- /O.NEW.KDDC.WI.Y.0013.090309T2300Z-090310T0000Z/ HODGEMAN-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JETMORE...HANSTON...ULYSSES... SUBLETTE...SATANTA...CIMARRON...MONTEZUMA...DODGE CITY... BUCKLIN...HUGOTON...MOSCOW...LIBERAL...KISMET...MEADE...FOWLER... ASHLAND...MINNEOLA 327 PM CDT MON MAR 9 2009 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. STRONG WINDS ALOFT HAVE BEGUN TO MIX DOWN THIS AFTERNOON ALLOWING SURFACE WINDS TO INCREASE TO 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH. WINDS WILL BEGIN TO SUBSIDE LATER THIS EVENING. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 30 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$ 32
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS73 KDDC 092359 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 659 PM CDT MON MAR 9 2009 ...STRONG GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS THROUGH THE MID EVENING HOURS... .A DEEPENING SURFACE LOW ACROSS SOUTHEAST COLORADO WILL CONTINUE TO CREATE A TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT ACROSS SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS THROUGH THIS EVENING AHEAD OF A STRONG COLD FRONT. KSZ064-077-078-100100- /O.CAN.KDDC.WI.Y.0013.000000T0000Z-090310T0000Z/ HODGEMAN-GRAY-FORD- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JETMORE...HANSTON...CIMARRON... MONTEZUMA...DODGE CITY...BUCKLIN 659 PM CDT MON MAR 9 2009 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. SOUTHWEST WINDS HAVE DECREASED TO 20 TO 30 MPH THIS EVENING. A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL SHIFT THE WINDS TO THE NORTH, HOWEVER SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO REACH OR EXCEED 30 MPH. $$ KSZ075-076-085>088-100200- /O.EXT.KDDC.WI.Y.0013.000000T0000Z-090310T0200Z/ GRANT-HASKELL-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ULYSSES...SUBLETTE...SATANTA... HUGOTON...MOSCOW...LIBERAL...KISMET...MEADE...FOWLER...ASHLAND... MINNEOLA 659 PM CDT MON MAR 9 2009 ...WIND ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE WIND ADVISORY IS NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING. STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS HAVE CONTINUED IN THE 25 TO 40 MPH RANGE, MAINLY ALONG THE OKLAHOMA BORDER WEST OF HIGHWAY 283. THESE WINDS SHOULD CONTINUE THROUGH MOST OF THE EVENING AHEAD OF A STRONG COLD FRONT. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 30 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$ UMSCHEID
000 WWUS73 KDDC 100112 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 812 PM CDT MON MAR 9 2009 ...SOUTHWEST WINDS HAVE DECREASED ACROSS FAR SOUTHWEST KANSAS... .WINDS HAVE CONTINUED TO DECREASE IN INTENSITY AFTER SUNSET AND LOSS OF DEEP ATMOSPHERIC MIXING. A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH SOUTH ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS TONIGHT, HOWEVER WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW 30 MPH EXCEPT FOR OCCASIONAL GUSTS. KSZ075-076-085>088-100215- /O.CAN.KDDC.WI.Y.0013.000000T0000Z-090310T0200Z/ GRANT-HASKELL-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ULYSSES...SUBLETTE...SATANTA... HUGOTON...MOSCOW...LIBERAL...KISMET...MEADE...FOWLER...ASHLAND... MINNEOLA 812 PM CDT MON MAR 9 2009 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL RANGE FROM 20 TO 30 MPH AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT. BEHIND THE COLD FRONT...WINDS WILL ALSO RANGE FROM 20 TO 30 MPH WITH SOME OCCASIONAL HIGHER GUSTS. $$ UMSCHEID
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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.