Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 24, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this wind advisory at Jun 7, 2011, 10:27 AM CDT for 11 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jun 7, 2011, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 2011, 10:27 AM CDT (15:27 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 7, 2011, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2011, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 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, Kiowa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rush County, KS, Stafford County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:27 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, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -674 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2580 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 227 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 478 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
764 WWUS73 KDDC 071527 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1027 AM CDT TUE JUN 7 2011 ...VERY WINDY CONDITIONS CAN BE EXPECTED TODAY... .A TIGHT SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENT LOCATED ACROSS CENTRAL AND PARTS TO SOUTHWEST KANSAS ALONG WITH STRONG WINDS ALOFT MIXING DOWN TO THE SURFACE WILL RESULT IN GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH TODAY AND EARLY THIS EVENING. KSZ031-046-065-066-078>081-088>090-072330- /O.NEW.KDDC.WI.Y.0024.110607T1800Z-110608T0200Z/ ELLIS-RUSH-PAWNEE-STAFFORD-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA-PRATT-CLARK- COMANCHE-BARBER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HAYS...ELLIS...LA CROSSE... RUSH CENTER...LARNED...BURDETT...ST. JOHN...STAFFORD...HUDSON... DODGE CITY...BUCKLIN...KINSLEY...LEWIS...GREENSBURG...HAVILAND... PRATT...ASHLAND...MINNEOLA...COLDWATER...PROTECTION... MEDICINE LODGE...KIOWA...SUN CITY 1027 AM CDT TUE JUN 7 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * TIMING: GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING. * WINDS: SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL RANGE FROM 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH POSSIBLE. * IMPACTS: MOTORISTS SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING IN THE WIND ADVISORY AREA. ALERT TO SUDDEN GUSTS OF WIND WHICH MAY CAUSE YOU TO LOSE CONTROL OF YOUR VEHICLE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ 18
1 follow-up statement
661 WWUS73 KDDC 072045 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 345 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 2011 ...WIND SPEEDS WILL REMAIN IN THE 20 TO 30 MPH RANGE LATE THIS AFTERNOON... .SMOKE FROM THE FIRES IN ARIZONA HAVE REDUCED THE MIXING POTENTIAL ACROSS WESTERN AND PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. AS A RESULT STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE NO LONGER ANTICIPATED. KSZ031-046-065-066-078>081-088>090-072145- /O.CAN.KDDC.WI.Y.0024.000000T0000Z-110608T0200Z/ ELLIS-RUSH-PAWNEE-STAFFORD-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA-PRATT-CLARK- COMANCHE-BARBER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HAYS...ELLIS...LA CROSSE... RUSH CENTER...LARNED...BURDETT...ST. JOHN...STAFFORD...HUDSON... DODGE CITY...BUCKLIN...KINSLEY...LEWIS...GREENSBURG...HAVILAND... PRATT...ASHLAND...MINNEOLA...COLDWATER...PROTECTION... MEDICINE LODGE...KIOWA...SUN CITY 345 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WINDS WILL REMAIN BELOW WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA THROUGH SUNSET SO THE ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$ RB
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.