Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 36, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this wind advisory at Nov 2, 2011, 3:50 AM CDT for Barber County, Clark County, Comanche County, Kansas. It took effect at Nov 2, 2011, 9:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 2, 2011, 3:50 AM CDT (08:50 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 2, 2011, 9:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Nov 2, 2011, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:47 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 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 2355 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 233 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 317 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
330 WWUS73 KDDC 020850 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 350 AM CDT WED NOV 2 2011 ...IT WILL BECOME VERY WINDY TODAY... .AS A COLD FRONT SINKS SOUTH, THE SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENT WILL TIGHTEN UP AND PRODUCE STRONG WINDS TODAY. SOUTHEAST WINDS 10 TO 20 MPH VERY EARLY TODAY WILL SHIFT NORTH AFTER THE FRONTAL PASSAGE AND INCREASE INTO THE 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH AFTER 9 AM CDT. WINDS WILL START TO SUBSIDE AFTER 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. KSZ088>090-030000- /O.NEW.KDDC.WI.Y.0036.111102T1400Z-111103T0000Z/ CLARK-COMANCHE-BARBER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ASHLAND...MINNEOLA...COLDWATER... PROTECTION...MEDICINE LODGE...KIOWA...SUN CITY 350 AM CDT WED NOV 2 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * TIMING...AFTER WINDS SHIFT NORTH AROUND 9 AM CDT THIS MORNING, WINDS SPEED WILL RAPIDLY INCREASE AND BECOME STRONG. * WINDS...WINDS WILL BECOME NORTH AT 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS TO OVER 45 MPH. * IMPACTS...WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT, ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. LIGHT WEIGHT OBJECTS SUCH AS TRASH CONTAINERS AND LAWN FURNITURE CAN EASILY BE BLOWN AROUND. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ 12
1 follow-up statement
292 WWUS73 KDDC 022343 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 643 PM CDT WED NOV 2 2011 ...THE PRESSURE GRADIENT CONTINUES TO DECREASE AS A SURFACE AREA OF LOW PRESSURE MOVES QUICKLY TO THE EAST. THEREFORE...WINDS HAVE DECREASED BELOW WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA... KSZ088>090-030045- /O.EXP.KDDC.WI.Y.0036.000000T0000Z-111103T0000Z/ CLARK-COMANCHE-BARBER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ASHLAND...MINNEOLA...COLDWATER... PROTECTION...MEDICINE LODGE...KIOWA...SUN CITY 643 PM CDT WED NOV 2 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. $$ WAH
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.