Alert archive / Kansas / Freeze Warnings in 2011
Freeze Warning 2, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this freeze warning at Oct 26, 2011, 3:39 PM CDT for 7 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Oct 27, 2011, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 26, 2011, 3:39 PM CDT (20:39 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 27, 2011, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 27, 2011, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Finney County, KS, Grant County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Morton County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:41 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 822 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 218 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 574 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
948 WWUS73 KDDC 262039 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 339 PM CDT WED OCT 26 2011 ...A HARD FREEZE IS EXPECTED ACROSS FAR SOUTHWEST KANSAS TONIGHT... .AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST OVER THE CENTRAL PLAINS THIS EVENING. AS THE SYSTEM MOVES EAST OF THE REGION LATER TONIGHT...COLD HIGH PRESSURE WILL BE BUILDING INTO THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS. AS A RESULT...TEMPERATURES WILL FALL BELOW FREEZING LATER TONIGHT INTO EARLY THURSDAY MORNING. KSZ061>063-074-075-084-085-270445- /O.UPG.KDDC.FZ.A.0002.111027T0600Z-111027T1300Z/ /O.NEW.KDDC.FZ.W.0002.111027T0600Z-111027T1300Z/ HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-STANTON-GRANT-MORTON-STEVENS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SYRACUSE...LAKIN...DEERFIELD... GARDEN CITY...KALVESTA...JOHNSON CITY...ULYSSES...ELKHART... RICHFIELD...HUGOTON...MOSCOW 339 PM CDT WED OCT 26 2011 /239 PM MDT WED OCT 26 2011/ ...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM CDT /MIDNIGHT MDT/ TO 8 AM CDT /7 AM MDT/ THURSDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A FREEZE WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM CDT /MIDNIGHT MDT/ TO 8 AM CDT /7 AM MDT/ THURSDAY. THE FREEZE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * TEMPERATURE...TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO FALL INTO THE 25 TO 28 DEGREE RANGE BEFORE SUNRISE THURSDAY. * IMPACTS...THOSE THAT HAVE TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS AS WELL AS LATE SEASON GARDENS SHOULD TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT PLANTS FROM FREEZING TEMPERATURES. THE TEMPERATURES COULD ALSO BE COLD ENOUGH TO DAMAGE SPRINKLER SYSTEMS THAT HAVE NOT BEEN WINTERIZED YET. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION. && $$
2 follow-up statements
880 WWUS73 KDDC 270356 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1056 PM CDT WED OCT 26 2011 ...A HARD FREEZE IS EXPECTED ACROSS FAR SOUTHWEST KANSAS LATE TONIGHT... .AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST OVER THE CENTRAL PLAINS THIS EVENING. AS THE SYSTEM MOVES EAST OF THE REGION LATER TONIGHT...COLD HIGH PRESSURE WILL BE BUILDING INTO THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS. AS A RESULT...TEMPERATURES WILL FALL BELOW FREEZING LATER TONIGHT INTO EARLY THURSDAY MORNING. KSZ061>063-074-075-084-085-271300- /O.CON.KDDC.FZ.W.0002.111027T0600Z-111027T1300Z/ HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-STANTON-GRANT-MORTON-STEVENS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SYRACUSE...LAKIN...DEERFIELD... GARDEN CITY...KALVESTA...JOHNSON CITY...ULYSSES...ELKHART... RICHFIELD...HUGOTON...MOSCOW 1056 PM CDT WED OCT 26 2011 /956 PM MDT WED OCT 26 2011/ ...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM CDT /7 AM MDT/ THURSDAY... A FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM CDT /7 AM MDT/ THURSDAY. * TEMPERATURE...TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO FALL INTO THE 25 TO 28 DEGREE RANGE BEFORE SUNRISE THURSDAY. * IMPACTS...THOSE THAT HAVE TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS AS WELL AS LATE SEASON GARDENS SHOULD TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT PLANTS FROM FREEZING TEMPERATURES. THE TEMPERATURES COULD ALSO BE COLD ENOUGH TO DAMAGE SPRINKLER SYSTEMS THAT HAVE NOT BEEN WINTERIZED YET. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION. && $$ 06
767 WWUS73 KDDC 271251 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 751 AM CDT THU OCT 27 2011 ...PART OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS RECEIVED THE FIRST HARD FREEZE OVERNIGHT... .PARTS OF HAMILTON AND KEARNEY COUNTIES DIPPED TO 28 DEGREES OR LOWER THIS MORNING. ACROSS THE REST OF THE WARNING AREA, DEW POINTS WERE TOO HIGH TO ALLOW TEMPERATURES TO DROP TO 28 DEGREES OR LOWER. KSZ061>063-074-075-084-085-271400- /O.EXP.KDDC.FZ.W.0002.000000T0000Z-111027T1300Z/ HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-STANTON-GRANT-MORTON-STEVENS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SYRACUSE...LAKIN...DEERFIELD... GARDEN CITY...KALVESTA...JOHNSON CITY...ULYSSES...ELKHART... RICHFIELD...HUGOTON...MOSCOW 751 AM CDT THU OCT 27 2011 /651 AM MDT THU OCT 27 2011/ ...FREEZE WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 8 AM CDT /7 AM MDT/ THIS MORNING... THE FREEZE WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 8 AM CDT /7 AM MDT/ THIS MORNING. THE BRIGHT SUN WILL RISE AND QUICKLY WARM UP SURFACE TEMPERATURES. $$ 12
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 3:58 AM CDT | Freeze Watch | DDC | Finney, Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Morton, Stanton and 1 more | 12 hr |
Nearby
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.