Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2010
Wind Advisory 9, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this wind advisory at Mar 20, 2010, 1:27 PM CDT for 21 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 20, 2010, 1:27 PM CDT (18:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 20, 2010, 3:54 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
All 21 counties
Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards 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, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:28 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 36 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
- 622 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
513 WWUS73 KDDC 201827 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 127 PM CDT SAT MAR 20 2010 ...CORRECTED AGAIN FOR VALID TIME... ...STRONG NORTH WINDS WILL HOWL THIS AFTERNOON... .A RATHER TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT HAS RESULTED ACROSS MOST OF SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. THIS WILL CAUSE NORTH WINDS TO HOWL THIS AFTERNOON. KSZ061>066-074>081-084>090-202100- /O.CAN.KDDC.WI.Y.0008.100321T1800Z-100321T2100Z/ /O.NEW.KDDC.WI.Y.0009.100320T1827Z-100320T2100Z/ 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...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 127 PM CDT SAT MAR 20 2010 /1227 PM MDT SAT MAR 20 2010/ ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CDT /3 PM MDT/ THIS AFTERNOON... ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CDT /3 PM MDT/ THIS AFTERNOON. THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. * STRONG WINDS WILL BLOW THROUGH 4 PM CDT TODAY...BEFORE SUBSIDING SOMEWHAT. * NORTH WINDS WILL BLOW AT 25 TO 35 MPH THIS AFTERNOON...WITH GUSTS HIGHER AT TIMES. * HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES WILL BE IMPACTED...ESPECIALLY ON EAST- WEST HIGHWAYS...NEAR GRAIN ELEVATORS AND WIND BREAKS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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. && $$ 12
1 follow-up statement
176 WWUS73 KDDC 202054 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 354 PM CDT SAT MAR 20 2010 ...WINDS HAVE SUBSIDED BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA... .THE PRESSURE GRADIENT AT THE SURFACE IS BECOMING LESS TIGHT, AND THUS THE WIND SPEEDS HAVE BEEN SLOWLY DIMINISHING. KSZ061>066-074>081-084>090-202200- /O.CAN.KDDC.WI.Y.0009.000000T0000Z-100320T2100Z/ HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-HODGEMAN-PAWNEE-STAFFORD-STANTON-GRANT- HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA-PRATT-MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE- CLARK-COMANCHE-BARBER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SYRACUSE...LAKIN...DEERFIELD... GARDEN CITY...KALVESTA...JETMORE...HANSTON...LARNED...BURDETT... ST. JOHN...STAFFORD...HUDSON...JOHNSON CITY...ULYSSES... SUBLETTE...SATANTA...CIMARRON...MONTEZUMA...DODGE CITY... BUCKLIN...KINSLEY...LEWIS...GREENSBURG...HAVILAND...PRATT... ELKHART...RICHFIELD...HUGOTON...MOSCOW...LIBERAL...KISMET... MEADE...FOWLER...ASHLAND...MINNEOLA...COLDWATER...PROTECTION... MEDICINE LODGE...KIOWA...SUN CITY 354 PM CDT SAT MAR 20 2010 /254 PM MDT SAT MAR 20 2010/ ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. NORTH WINDS WILL CONTINUE AT 20 TO 30 MPH AND OCCASIONALLY EVEN HIGHER THROUGH SUNSET, THEN BECOME NORTHWEST AT 10 TO 20 MPH. $$ 12
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 20, 4:12 AM CDT | Winter Weather Advisory | DDC | Barber, Comanche, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford | 6 hr |
| Mar 20, 12:53 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 15 more | 24 min |
| Mar 20, 1:17 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 15 more | 10 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.