Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2009
Wind Advisory 5, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this wind advisory at Jan 18, 2009, 1:00 PM CST for 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 18, 2009, 1:00 PM CST (19:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 18, 2009, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Lane County, KS, Ness County, KS, Scott County, KS, Trego County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:02 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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 2040 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 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 181900 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 100 PM CST SUN JAN 18 2009 ...GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON... .STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS IN THE LOWER TO MIDDLE LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE WERE MIXING DOWN TO THE SURFACE AS TEMPERATURES WARM INTO THE 60S THIS AFTERNOON. THE WINDS SHOULD CONTINUE STRONG THROUGH THE MID AFTERNOON HOURS BUT SHOULD ABATE TOWARD SUNSET. KSZ030-043>045-190000- /O.NEW.KDDC.WI.Y.0005.090118T1900Z-090119T0000Z/ TREGO-SCOTT-LANE-NESS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WAKEENEY...CEDAR BLUFF RESERVOIR... SCOTT CITY...DIGHTON...NESS CITY 100 PM CST SUN JAN 18 2009 ...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. NORTHWEST WINDS AT 30 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 5 PM BEFORE DIMINISHING. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$ GERARD
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS73 KDDC 182359 AAA NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 559 PM CST SUN JAN 18 2009 ...WINDS DECREASING... KSZ030-043>045-190100- /O.EXP.KDDC.WI.Y.0005.000000T0000Z-090119T0000Z/ TREGO-SCOTT-LANE-NESS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WAKEENEY...CEDAR BLUFF RESERVOIR... SCOTT CITY...DIGHTON...NESS CITY 559 PM CST SUN JAN 18 2009 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. NORTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO DECREASE TO 10 TO 15 MPH FOR THE REST OF TONIGHT. $$ 06
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 18, 12:16 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | DDC | Finney, Grant, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny, Morton and 4 more | 18 hr |
| Jan 18, 11:54 AM CST | Fire Weather Watch | DDC | Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Morton, Stanton, Stevens | 14 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.