Alert archive / Kansas / Dense Fog Advisories in 2011
Dense Fog Advisory 9, NWS Dodge City, KS
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.
- 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
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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</html>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 32
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 10:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Lane | 46 min |
| May 18, 11:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Pawnee | 43 min |
| May 18, 11:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Hodgeman, Pawnee | 25 min |
| May 19, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche | 62 min |
| May 19, 4:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Kiowa | 41 min |
| May 19, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford | 40 min |
| May 19, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa | 39 min |
| May 19, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 46 min |
| May 19, 6:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ford | 53 min |
| May 19, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Hodgeman | 20 min |
Nearby
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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.