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Dense Fog Advisory 9, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 19, 20119 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this dense fog advisory at May 19, 2011, 8:36 AM CDT for 9 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 19, 2011, 8:36 AM CDT (13:36 UTC)
Expired
May 19, 2011, 10:45 AM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS

Counties Finney County, KS, Grant County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:37 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, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 126 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2011-05-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1795 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2011-05-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 370 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1795 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
572 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
370 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
324 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
4.4
Supercell composite
15.9

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this dense fog advisory 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 dense fog advisory went out at May 19, 6:17 AM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 19, 6:17 AM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, May 19, 4:10 AM CDT, 4 hours 26 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
410 AM CDT THU MAY 19 2011

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-200915-
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-
410 AM CDT THU MAY 19 2011 /310 AM MDT THU MAY 19 2011/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...SOUTH
CENTRAL...SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING
GENERALLY EAST OF A LINE FROM WAKEENEY TO ASHLAND. A FEW OF THESE
STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL TO
BASEBALL SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. A FEW
ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE AS WELL.

STRONG SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS, WARM TEMPERATURES AND LOW
RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL FAVOR THE RAPID GROWTH OF WILDFIRES WEST
OF A LINE FROM FRIEND TO ASHLAND.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED AGAIN FRIDAY MAINLY EAST OF HIGHWAY
283. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL
LARGER THAN THE SIZE OF GOLF BALLS AND DAMAGING WINDS.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE AGAIN FROM SUNDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH
TUESDAY AS A COLD FRONT MOVES INTO KANSAS AND A VIGOROUS UPPER
LEVEL TROUGH APPROACHES THE CENTRAL PLAINS. SOME OF THESE
THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE SEVERE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING...MAINLY EAST OF A WAKEENEY TO ASHLAND LINE.

&&

FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 18, 10:29 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCLane46 min
May 18, 11:17 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCPawnee43 min
May 18, 11:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Hodgeman, Pawnee25 min
May 19, 3:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber, Comanche62 min
May 19, 4:19 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCKiowa41 min
May 19, 4:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford40 min
May 19, 5:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Kiowa39 min
May 19, 5:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStafford46 min
May 19, 6:07 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCFord53 min
May 19, 6:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord, Hodgeman20 min

Nearby

Dense Fog Advisories in Kansas, 2011Every dense fog advisory in 2011

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.