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Fire Weather Watch 32, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this fire weather watch at Jun 14, 2011, 3:29 PM CDT for 9 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jun 16, 2011, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 2011, 3:29 PM CDT (20:29 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 16, 2011, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2011, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 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 20:31 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, 8.5 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
- 1159 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -436 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 588 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this fire weather 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 fire weather watch went out at Jun 14, 4:00 AM CDT, 11 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 4:00 AM CDT, 11 hours 29 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 14, 10:47 AM CDT, 4 hours 42 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1047 AM CDT TUE JUN 14 2011 KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-151600- 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- 1047 AM CDT TUE JUN 14 2011 /947 AM MDT TUE JUN 14 2011/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL...SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP EARLY THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS EAST-CENTRAL COLORADO AHEAD OF A WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE. THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE EAST AND REACH FAR WEST-CENTRAL OR SOUTHWEST KANSAS BY LATE AFTERNOON. WITH AN INCREASE IN MOISTURE BEHIND THE FRONT AND SUNSHINE OCCURRING AS WELL...ATMOSPHERIC DESTABILIZATION WILL OCCUR AND WILL SUPPORT AN ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OR TWO BY LATE IN THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE GENERALLY WEST OF A LINE FROM HUGOTON TO GARDEN CITY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THERE IS SLIGHT CHANCE FOR ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS EACH LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM THURSDAY INTO MONDAY, EAST OF LINE FROM WAKEENEY TO DODGE CITY TO ASHLAND. LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH A FEW ISOLATED STORMS DURING THIS PERIOD. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... STORM SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING WEST ACROSS FAR WEST-CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST KANSAS. && FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC UMSCHEID
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 3:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Scott | 41 min |
| Jun 14, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Kearny, Lane, Scott | 50 min |
| Jun 14, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray, Hodgeman, Lane, Ness | 44 min |
| Jun 14, 4:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Gray | 37 min |
| Jun 14, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Finney, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman, Ness and 2 more | 61 min |
| Jun 14, 5:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa, Pawnee | 50 min |
| Jun 14, 6:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Stafford | 49 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.