Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 38, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this wind advisory at Nov 17, 2011, 12:51 PM CST for 10 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Nov 17, 2011, 1:00 PM CST. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 17, 2011, 12:51 PM CST (18:51 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 17, 2011, 1:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Nov 17, 2011, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Clark County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:49 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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 47 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
- 2071 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
752 WWUS73 KDDC 171851 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1251 PM CST THU NOV 17 2011 ...STRONG SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED TODAY... .A TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT WILL LEAD TO STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS TODAY. KSZ045-063-064-076>078-085>088-172300- /O.NEW.KDDC.WI.Y.0038.111117T1900Z-111117T2300Z/ NESS-FINNEY-HODGEMAN-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NESS CITY...GARDEN CITY...KALVESTA... JETMORE...HANSTON...SUBLETTE...SATANTA...CIMARRON...MONTEZUMA... DODGE CITY...BUCKLIN...HUGOTON...MOSCOW...LIBERAL...KISMET... MEADE...FOWLER...ASHLAND...MINNEOLA 1251 PM CST THU NOV 17 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. * TIMING...THE STRONGER WINDS WILL LAST THROUGH 5 PM. * WINDS...WINDS WILL BE SUSTAINED AT AROUND 30 MPH WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 40 MPH. * IMPACTS...DRIVERS OF HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES NEED TO USE EXTRA CAUTION, ESPECIALLY ON EAST TO WEST HIGHWAYS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
1 follow-up statement
600 WWUS73 KDDC 172313 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 513 PM CST THU NOV 17 2011 ...WINDS ARE DIMINISHING ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS... KSZ045-063-064-076>078-085>088-180015- /O.EXP.KDDC.WI.Y.0038.000000T0000Z-111117T2300Z/ NESS-FINNEY-HODGEMAN-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NESS CITY...GARDEN CITY...KALVESTA... JETMORE...HANSTON...SUBLETTE...SATANTA...CIMARRON...MONTEZUMA... DODGE CITY...BUCKLIN...HUGOTON...MOSCOW...LIBERAL...KISMET... MEADE...FOWLER...ASHLAND...MINNEOLA 513 PM CST THU NOV 17 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... THE WIND ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. $$ 02
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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.