Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2009
Wind Advisory 7, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this wind advisory at Feb 6, 2009, 1:19 PM CST for 27 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 6, 2009, 1:19 PM CST (19:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 6, 2009, 6:36 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
All 27 counties
Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Trego County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:23 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 27 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
- 3862 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 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 061919 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 119 PM CST FRI FEB 6 2009 ...EXPECT STRONG WINDS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING... .SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL BLOW AT 25 TO 35 MPH THIS AFTERNOON, GUSTING OCCASIONALLY TO 50 MPH. A TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT WILL ALLOW WINDS TO BLOW THIS STRONG THROUGH THIS EVENING. VISIBILITY WILL BE REDUCED AT TIMES IN BLOWING DUST. KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-070100- /O.NEW.KDDC.WI.Y.0007.090206T1919Z-090207T0100Z/ TREGO-ELLIS-SCOTT-LANE-NESS-RUSH-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-HODGEMAN- PAWNEE-STAFFORD-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA- PRATT-MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK-COMANCHE-BARBER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WAKEENEY...CEDAR BLUFF RESERVOIR... HAYS...ELLIS...SCOTT CITY...DIGHTON...NESS CITY...LA CROSSE... RUSH CENTER...SYRACUSE...LAKIN...DEERFIELD...GARDEN CITY... KALVESTA...JETMORE...HANSTON...LARNED...BURDETT...ST. JOHN... STAFFORD...HUDSON...JOHNSON CITY...ULYSSES...SUBLETTE...SATANTA... CIMARRON...MONTEZUMA...DODGE CITY...BUCKLIN...KINSLEY...LEWIS... GREENSBURG...HAVILAND...PRATT...ELKHART...RICHFIELD...HUGOTON... MOSCOW...LIBERAL...KISMET...MEADE...FOWLER...ASHLAND...MINNEOLA... COLDWATER...PROTECTION...MEDICINE LODGE...KIOWA...SUN CITY 119 PM CST FRI FEB 6 2009 /1219 PM MST FRI FEB 6 2009/ ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST /6 PM MST/ THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST /6 PM MST/ THIS EVENING. STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL BLOW AT 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 50 MPH THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. THESE STRONG WINDS WILL CAUSE BLOWING DUST IN PLACES, REDUCING VISIBILITY TO A MILE OR LESS AT TIMES. SLOW DOWN AND BE PREPARED FOR RAPID CHANGES IN VISIBILITY. 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. $$ 12
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS73 KDDC 070036 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 636 PM CST FRI FEB 6 2009 ...STRONG WINDS HAVE SUBSIDED... .GUSTY WEST TO SOUTHWEST WINDS ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON HAVE DIMINISHED WITH SUNSET. KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-070145- /O.CAN.KDDC.WI.Y.0007.000000T0000Z-090207T0100Z/ TREGO-ELLIS-SCOTT-LANE-NESS-RUSH-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-HODGEMAN- PAWNEE-STAFFORD-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA- PRATT-MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK-COMANCHE-BARBER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WAKEENEY...CEDAR BLUFF RESERVOIR... HAYS...ELLIS...SCOTT CITY...DIGHTON...NESS CITY...LA CROSSE... RUSH CENTER...SYRACUSE...LAKIN...DEERFIELD...GARDEN CITY... KALVESTA...JETMORE...HANSTON...LARNED...BURDETT...ST. JOHN... STAFFORD...HUDSON...JOHNSON CITY...ULYSSES...SUBLETTE...SATANTA... CIMARRON...MONTEZUMA...DODGE CITY...BUCKLIN...KINSLEY...LEWIS... GREENSBURG...HAVILAND...PRATT...ELKHART...RICHFIELD...HUGOTON... MOSCOW...LIBERAL...KISMET...MEADE...FOWLER...ASHLAND...MINNEOLA... COLDWATER...PROTECTION...MEDICINE LODGE...KIOWA...SUN CITY 636 PM CST FRI FEB 6 2009 /536 PM MST FRI FEB 6 2009/ ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WEST TO SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO DIMINISH INTO THE 5 TO 15 MPH RANGE ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS THIS EVENING. $$ GERARD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 9:05 PM CST | Red Flag Warning | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 21 more | 22 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.