Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 16, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this wind advisory at May 4, 2011, 10:38 AM CDT for 18 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 4, 2011, 10:38 AM CDT (15:38 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2011, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rush County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:36 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, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 19 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
- 3302 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
406 WWUS73 KDDC 041538 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1038 AM CDT WED MAY 4 2011 ...STRONG WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED TODAY... .A TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT ALONG WITH STRONG WINDS ALOFT MIXING DOWN TO THE SURFACE WILL RESULT IN STRONG SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS TODAY. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO NEAR 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. KSZ046-064>066-075>081-084>090-042345- /O.NEW.KDDC.WI.Y.0016.110504T1538Z-110505T0100Z/ RUSH-HODGEMAN-PAWNEE-STAFFORD-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS- KIOWA-PRATT-MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK-COMANCHE-BARBER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LA CROSSE...RUSH CENTER...JETMORE... HANSTON...LARNED...BURDETT...ST. JOHN...STAFFORD...HUDSON... ULYSSES...SUBLETTE...SATANTA...CIMARRON...MONTEZUMA... DODGE CITY...BUCKLIN...KINSLEY...LEWIS...GREENSBURG...HAVILAND... PRATT...ELKHART...RICHFIELD...HUGOTON...MOSCOW...LIBERAL... KISMET...MEADE...FOWLER...ASHLAND...MINNEOLA...COLDWATER... PROTECTION...MEDICINE LODGE...KIOWA...SUN CITY 1038 AM CDT WED MAY 4 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * TIMING: STRONG SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON. * WINDS: SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS AT 30 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO NEAR 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED. * IMPACTS: STRONG WINDS WILL CREATE A FEW AREAS OF BLOWING DUST WHICH MAY REDUCE VISIBILITIES AT TIMES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ 18
2 follow-up statements
067 WWUS73 KDDC 042017 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 317 PM CDT WED MAY 4 2011 ...STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON... .A TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT ALONG WITH STRONG WINDS ALOFT MIXING DOWN TO THE SURFACE WILL RESULT IN STRONG SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS TODAY. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO NEAR 45 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON. KSZ046-064>066-075>079-084-042130- /O.CAN.KDDC.WI.Y.0016.000000T0000Z-110505T0100Z/ RUSH-HODGEMAN-PAWNEE-STAFFORD-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS- MORTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LA CROSSE...RUSH CENTER...JETMORE... HANSTON...LARNED...BURDETT...ST. JOHN...STAFFORD...HUDSON... ULYSSES...SUBLETTE...SATANTA...CIMARRON...MONTEZUMA... DODGE CITY...BUCKLIN...KINSLEY...LEWIS...ELKHART...RICHFIELD 317 PM CDT WED MAY 4 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WINDS WERE GRADUALLY DECREASING THIS AFTERNOON AND CURRENTLY HAD FALLEN BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA. GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO NEAR 30 MPH HOWEVER CAN STILL BE EXPECTED THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE DAY. $$ KSZ080-081-085>090-050100- /O.CON.KDDC.WI.Y.0016.000000T0000Z-110505T0100Z/ KIOWA-PRATT-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK-COMANCHE-BARBER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GREENSBURG...HAVILAND...PRATT... HUGOTON...MOSCOW...LIBERAL...KISMET...MEADE...FOWLER...ASHLAND... MINNEOLA...COLDWATER...PROTECTION...MEDICINE LODGE...KIOWA... SUN CITY 317 PM CDT WED MAY 4 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * TIMING: STRONG SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON. * WINDS: SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS AT 30 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO NEAR 45 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED. * IMPACTS: STRONG WINDS WILL CREATE A FEW AREAS OF BLOWING DUST WHICH MAY REDUCE VISIBILITIES AT TIMES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
417 WWUS73 KDDC 050040 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 740 PM CDT WED MAY 4 2011 KSZ080-081-085>090-050145- /O.EXP.KDDC.WI.Y.0016.000000T0000Z-110505T0100Z/ KIOWA-PRATT-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK-COMANCHE-BARBER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GREENSBURG...HAVILAND...PRATT... HUGOTON...MOSCOW...LIBERAL...KISMET...MEADE...FOWLER...ASHLAND... MINNEOLA...COLDWATER...PROTECTION...MEDICINE LODGE...KIOWA... SUN CITY 740 PM CDT WED MAY 4 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING... STRONG SOUTH WINDS WILL DECREASE BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA BY 8 PM CDT. $$ 06
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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.