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Winter Storm Watch 3, NWS Dodge City, KS

December 6, 20097 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this winter storm watch at Dec 6, 2009, 4:43 AM CST for 7 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Dec 8, 2009, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 6, 2009, 4:43 AM CST (10:43 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 8, 2009, 12:00 AM CST
Expired: Dec 7, 2009, 4:39 AM CST
In force
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS

Counties Ellis County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Lane County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Rush County, KS, Trego County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter storm watch 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 winter storm watch went out at Dec 6, 3:30 AM CST, 1 hour 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 6, 3:30 AM CST, 1 hour 13 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 6, 4:43 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	DDC	Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 18 more	13 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Watches in Kansas, 2009 Every winter storm watch in 2009

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.