Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 14, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this wind advisory at Apr 15, 2011, 6:57 PM CDT for 14 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 15, 2011, 6:57 PM CDT (23:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2011, 9:09 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ford County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rush County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Trego County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:57 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
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 225 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
- 770 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
374 WWUS73 KDDC 152357 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 657 PM CDT FRI APR 15 2011 ...HIGH WIND EVENT WINDING DOWN... .AS THE VIGOROUS UPPER LOW RESPONSIBLE FOR THE HIGH WIND EVENT TODAY CONTINUES TO PULL EAST...WINDS WILL CONTINUE A DOWNWARD TREND IN STRENGTH AS THE EVENING PROGRESSES. KSZ030-031-045-046-064>066-078>081-088>090-160300- /O.CAN.KDDC.HW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-110416T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KDDC.WI.Y.0014.110416T0000Z-110416T0300Z/ TREGO-ELLIS-NESS-RUSH-HODGEMAN-PAWNEE-STAFFORD-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA- PRATT-CLARK-COMANCHE-BARBER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WAKEENEY...CEDAR BLUFF RESERVOIR... HAYS...ELLIS...NESS CITY...LA CROSSE...RUSH CENTER...JETMORE... HANSTON...LARNED...BURDETT...ST. JOHN...STAFFORD...HUDSON... DODGE CITY...BUCKLIN...KINSLEY...LEWIS...GREENSBURG...HAVILAND... PRATT...ASHLAND...MINNEOLA...COLDWATER...PROTECTION... MEDICINE LODGE...KIOWA...SUN CITY 657 PM CDT FRI APR 15 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING... ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING. THE HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. * NORTHWEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE DECREASING SLOWLY THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS...BUT 25 TO 35 MPH WINDS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH 10 PM. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ KSZ043-044-061>063-074>077-084>087-160100- /O.CAN.KDDC.HW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-110416T0000Z/ SCOTT-LANE-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY- MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SCOTT CITY...DIGHTON...SYRACUSE... LAKIN...DEERFIELD...GARDEN CITY...KALVESTA...JOHNSON CITY... ULYSSES...SUBLETTE...SATANTA...CIMARRON...MONTEZUMA...ELKHART... RICHFIELD...HUGOTON...MOSCOW...LIBERAL...KISMET...MEADE...FOWLER 657 PM CDT FRI APR 15 2011 /557 PM MDT FRI APR 15 2011/ ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH WIND WARNING. NORTHWEST WINDS ARE CONTINUING TO DECREASE IN INTENSITY FOLLOWING THE HIGH WIND EVENT. WIND SPEEDS SHOULD CONTINUE TO FALL INTO THE 15 TO 25 MPH RANGE BY 9 PM CDT. $$ UMSCHEID
1 follow-up statement
190 WWUS73 KDDC 160209 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 909 PM CDT FRI APR 15 2011 ...HIGH WIND EVENT IS OVER... .THE PRESSURE GRADIENT BEHIND THE POWERFUL STORM HAS RELAXED AND WITH THE SETTING OF THE SUN...ATMOSPHERIC MIXING HAS ALSO CEASED...LEADING TO MUCH WEAKER NORTHWEST WINDS. KSZ030-031-045-046-064>066-078>081-088>090-160315- /O.CAN.KDDC.WI.Y.0014.000000T0000Z-110416T0300Z/ TREGO-ELLIS-NESS-RUSH-HODGEMAN-PAWNEE-STAFFORD-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA- PRATT-CLARK-COMANCHE-BARBER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WAKEENEY...CEDAR BLUFF RESERVOIR... HAYS...ELLIS...NESS CITY...LA CROSSE...RUSH CENTER...JETMORE... HANSTON...LARNED...BURDETT...ST. JOHN...STAFFORD...HUDSON... DODGE CITY...BUCKLIN...KINSLEY...LEWIS...GREENSBURG...HAVILAND... PRATT...ASHLAND...MINNEOLA...COLDWATER...PROTECTION... MEDICINE LODGE...KIOWA...SUN CITY 909 PM CDT FRI APR 15 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. NORTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH ARE EXPECTED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE NIGHT ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS. $$ UMSCHEID
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 2:31 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DDC | Grant, Hamilton, Morton, Seward, Stanton, Stevens | 18 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.