Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 13, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this wind advisory at Apr 12, 2011, 11:51 AM CDT for 11 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 12, 2011, 11:51 AM CDT (16:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 12, 2011, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Finney County, KS, Grant County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Morton County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:57 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, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 2888 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
355 WWUS73 KDDC 121651 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1151 AM CDT TUE APR 12 2011 ...STRONG SOUTH WINDS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON... .A DEEPENING SURFACE LOW PRESSURE TROUGH OVER EASTERN COLORADO IS RESULTING IN A TIGHTENING PRESSURE GRADIENT AND STRONG SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS ACROSS PARTS OF WESTERN KANSAS. THE STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HOURS AND SHOULD DIMINISH AS SUNSET APPROACHES. KSZ043-044-061>063-074>076-084>086-130100- /O.NEW.KDDC.WI.Y.0013.110412T1651Z-110413T0100Z/ SCOTT-LANE-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-MORTON- STEVENS-SEWARD- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SCOTT CITY...DIGHTON...SYRACUSE... LAKIN...DEERFIELD...GARDEN CITY...KALVESTA...JOHNSON CITY... ULYSSES...SUBLETTE...SATANTA...ELKHART...RICHFIELD...HUGOTON... MOSCOW...LIBERAL...KISMET 1151 AM CDT TUE APR 12 2011 /1051 AM MDT TUE APR 12 2011/ ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT /7 PM MDT/ THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT /7 PM MDT/ THIS EVENING. * TIMING: STRONG WINDS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THE REST OF THIS AFTERNOON. * WINDS: SUSTAINED SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS AT 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED. * IMPACTS: DRIVING WILL BE DIFFICULT ESPECIALLY ON EAST WEST ROADS AND AROUND WIND BREAKS AND GRAIN ELEVATORS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ GERARD
1 follow-up statement
375 WWUS73 KDDC 122300 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 600 PM CDT TUE APR 12 2011 ...STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS ARE BEGINNING TO SUBSIDE THIS EVENING... .SURFACE LOW PRESSURE IN EASTERN COLORADO HAS EDGED CLOSER TO THE KANSAS BORDER ALLOWING THE PRESSURE GRADIENT TO LOOSEN ACROSS WESTERN KANSAS. THIS HAS ALLOWED THE WINDS TO SUBSIDE EARLY THIS EVENING. KSZ043-044-061>063-074>076-084>086-130000- /O.CAN.KDDC.WI.Y.0013.000000T0000Z-110413T0100Z/ SCOTT-LANE-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-MORTON- STEVENS-SEWARD- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SCOTT CITY...DIGHTON...SYRACUSE... LAKIN...DEERFIELD...GARDEN CITY...KALVESTA...JOHNSON CITY... ULYSSES...SUBLETTE...SATANTA...ELKHART...RICHFIELD...HUGOTON... MOSCOW...LIBERAL...KISMET 600 PM CDT TUE APR 12 2011 /500 PM MDT TUE APR 12 2011/ ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS HAVE FALLEN BELOW WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA EARLY THIS EVENING. THEREFORE, THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$ 32
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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.