Alert archive / Kansas / Fire Weather Watches in 2011

Fire Weather Watch 41, NWS Dodge City, KS

October 3, 201124 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this fire weather watch at Oct 3, 2011, 3:11 AM CDT for 24 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Oct 4, 2011, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 3, 2011, 3:11 AM CDT (08:11 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 4, 2011, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired
Oct 3, 2011, 3:26 PM CDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
All 24 counties

Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis 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, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Trego County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:08 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 317 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2011-10-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2011-10-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 22 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3661 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 3, 3:26 PM CDTFire Weather WatchDDCBarber, Pratt, Stafford11 hr
Oct 3, 3:26 PM CDTRed Flag WarningDDCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 21 more29 hr

Nearby

Fire Weather Watches in Kansas, 2011Every fire weather watch 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.