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Fire Weather Watch 9, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 1, 201110 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this fire weather watch at Apr 1, 2011, 2:39 AM CDT for 10 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Apr 2, 2011, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 1, 2011, 2:39 AM CDT (07:39 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 2, 2011, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired
Apr 1, 2011, 3:48 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, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:39 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 297 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, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2011-04-01Temperature 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 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2011-04-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 93 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
3085 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 1, 2:39 AM CDTFire Weather WatchDDCClark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Grant and 17 more24 hr
Apr 1, 2:45 PM CDTRed Flag WarningDDCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 19 more52 hr
Apr 1, 3:48 PM CDTRed Flag WarningDDCFinney, Grant, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny, Morton and 4 more27 hr

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.