Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 3, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this wind advisory at Feb 20, 2011, 12:04 PM CST for 22 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 20, 2011, 12:04 PM CST (18:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 20, 2011, 3:49 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
All 22 counties
Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 6 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 12 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
- 1150 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 76 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 273 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 402 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
017 WWUS73 KDDC 201804 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1204 PM CST SUN FEB 20 2011 ...STRONG WEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON... .VERY WINDY CONDITIONS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON BEHIND A DRYLINE AS IT MOVES EAST ACROSS WESTERN KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. STRONG WINDS ALOFT WILL MIX DOWN TO THE SURFACE TODAY AND RESULT IN A PERIOD OF SUSTAINED WINDS RANGING FROM 30 TO 35 MPH. THESE GUSTY WINDS WILL FALL BACK INTO THE 20 TO 30 MPH RANGE TOWARDS SUNSET. KSZ043>046-062>066-075>081-085>090-210000- /O.NEW.KDDC.WI.Y.0003.110220T1804Z-110221T0000Z/ SCOTT-LANE-NESS-RUSH-KEARNY-FINNEY-HODGEMAN-PAWNEE-STAFFORD-GRANT- HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA-PRATT-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK- COMANCHE-BARBER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SCOTT CITY...DIGHTON...NESS CITY... LA CROSSE...RUSH CENTER...LAKIN...DEERFIELD...GARDEN CITY... KALVESTA...JETMORE...HANSTON...LARNED...BURDETT...ST. JOHN... STAFFORD...HUDSON...ULYSSES...SUBLETTE...SATANTA...CIMARRON... MONTEZUMA...DODGE CITY...BUCKLIN...KINSLEY...LEWIS...GREENSBURG... HAVILAND...PRATT...HUGOTON...MOSCOW...LIBERAL...KISMET...MEADE... FOWLER...ASHLAND...MINNEOLA...COLDWATER...PROTECTION... MEDICINE LODGE...KIOWA...SUN CITY 1204 PM CST SUN FEB 20 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. * TIMING: STRONG WEST WINDS ARE EXPECT THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON. THESE WINDS WILL BEGIN TO SUBSIDE BACK INTO THE 20 TO 25 MPH RANGE BY 6 PM. * WINDS...WEST WINDS OF 30 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH. * IMPACTS: DRIVING MAY BE DIFFICULT FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES TRAVELING ON ESPECIALLY ON NORTH TO SOUTH ROADWAYS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ 18
1 follow-up statement
702 WWUS73 KDDC 202149 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 349 PM CST SUN FEB 20 2011 ...WIND SPEEDS DECREASING THIS AFTERNOON... .SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS WERE DECREASING ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTHWEST AND PARTS OF CENTRAL KANSAS AS A COLD FRONT BEGINS TO WORK ITS WAY SOUTH INTO THE AREA. NORTH WINDS WILL DEVELOP AS THIS FRONT PASSES WITH SUSTAINED WIND SPEED EARLY TONIGHT RANGING FROM 15 TO 25 MPH. KSZ043>046-062>066-075>081-085>090-202300- /O.CAN.KDDC.WI.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-110221T0000Z/ SCOTT-LANE-NESS-RUSH-KEARNY-FINNEY-HODGEMAN-PAWNEE-STAFFORD-GRANT- HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA-PRATT-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK- COMANCHE-BARBER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SCOTT CITY...DIGHTON...NESS CITY... LA CROSSE...RUSH CENTER...LAKIN...DEERFIELD...GARDEN CITY... KALVESTA...JETMORE...HANSTON...LARNED...BURDETT...ST. JOHN... STAFFORD...HUDSON...ULYSSES...SUBLETTE...SATANTA...CIMARRON... MONTEZUMA...DODGE CITY...BUCKLIN...KINSLEY...LEWIS...GREENSBURG... HAVILAND...PRATT...HUGOTON...MOSCOW...LIBERAL...KISMET...MEADE... FOWLER...ASHLAND...MINNEOLA...COLDWATER...PROTECTION... MEDICINE LODGE...KIOWA...SUN CITY 349 PM CST SUN FEB 20 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WIND SPEEDS HAVE DECREASED INTO THE 20 TO 30 MPH RANGE THIS AFTERNOON. THESE WIND SPEEDS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH SUNSET AND THEN BEGIN TO SLOWLY SUBSIDE BACK INTO THE 15 TO 20 MPH RANGE. $$ 18
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.