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Wind Advisory 7, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this wind advisory at Mar 24, 2011, 3:48 AM CDT for 10 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Mar 24, 2011, 2:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 24, 2011, 3:48 AM CDT (08:48 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 24, 2011, 2:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 24, 2011, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Finney County, KS, Grant County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Morton County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:45 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 121 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
- 3235 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
775 WWUS73 KDDC 240848 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 348 AM CDT THU MAR 24 2011 ...STRONG SOUTH WINDS TO DEVELOP AHEAD OF COLORADO LOW... .A SMALL YET VIGOROUS STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE ACROSS COLORADO TODAY. IN ADVANCE OF THIS SYSTEM, LOW PRESSURE WILL RAPIDLY DEVELOP ACROSS EASTERN COLORADO AND THIS WILL INCREASE THE PRESSURE GRADIENT OVER WESTERN KANSAS AS A SURFACE HIGH IS SITUATED ACROSS THE EASTERN PLAINS AND LOWER MISSOURI VALLEY. KSZ043-061>063-074>076-084>086-241700- /O.NEW.KDDC.WI.Y.0007.110324T1900Z-110325T0100Z/ SCOTT-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-MORTON-STEVENS- SEWARD- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SCOTT CITY...SYRACUSE...LAKIN... DEERFIELD...GARDEN CITY...KALVESTA...JOHNSON CITY...ULYSSES... SUBLETTE...SATANTA...ELKHART...RICHFIELD...HUGOTON...MOSCOW... LIBERAL...KISMET 348 AM CDT THU MAR 24 2011 /248 AM MDT THU MAR 24 2011/ ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM CDT /1 PM MDT/ THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM CDT /7 PM MDT/ THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM CDT /1 PM MDT/ THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM CDT /7 PM MDT/ THIS EVENING. * STRONG SOUTH WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE IN STRENGTH THROUGH THE MID DAY AND AFTERNOON HOURS, REACHING PEAK INTENSITY LATE IN THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING BETWEEN 4 PM AND 7 PM CDT. * SOUTH WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. A FEW WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 45 MPH ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. * WINDS OF THIS STRENGTH WILL CAUSE A SIGNIFICANT INCONVENIENCE TO TRAVELERS DRIVING IN CROSS WINDS AND AROUND LARGE OBSTACLES SUCH AS GRAIN ELEVATORS. ALSO, WINDS OF THIS STRENGTH WILL CAUSE A SIGNIFICANT WILDFIRE CONCERN AS RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL FALL TO TO 20 TO 25 PERCENT BY MID AFTERNOON. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... MOTORISTS WILL NEED TO EXERCISE EXTRA CAUTION. MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER FAVORITE WEATHER SOURCE FOR THE LATEST FORECASTS AND STATEMENTS. && $$ UMSCHEID
1 follow-up statement
159 WWUS73 KDDC 241529 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1029 AM CDT THU MAR 24 2011 ...STRONG SOUTH WINDS TO DEVELOP AHEAD OF COLORADO LOW... .A SMALL YET VIGOROUS STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE ACROSS COLORADO TODAY. IN ADVANCE OF THIS SYSTEM...LOW PRESSURE WILL RAPIDLY DEVELOP ACROSS EASTERN COLORADO AND THIS WILL INCREASE THE PRESSURE GRADIENT OVER WESTERN KANSAS AS A SURFACE HIGH IS SITUATED ACROSS THE EASTERN PLAINS AND LOWER MISSOURI VALLEY. KSZ043-061>063-074>076-084>086-250100- /O.CON.KDDC.WI.Y.0007.110324T1900Z-110325T0100Z/ SCOTT-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-MORTON-STEVENS- SEWARD- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SCOTT CITY...SYRACUSE...LAKIN... DEERFIELD...GARDEN CITY...KALVESTA...JOHNSON CITY...ULYSSES... SUBLETTE...SATANTA...ELKHART...RICHFIELD...HUGOTON...MOSCOW... LIBERAL...KISMET 1029 AM CDT THU MAR 24 2011 /929 AM MDT THU MAR 24 2011/ ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM CDT /1 PM MDT/ THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM CDT /7 PM MDT/ THIS EVENING... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM CDT /1 PM MDT/ THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM CDT /7 PM MDT/ THIS EVENING. * STRONG SOUTH WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE IN STRENGTH THROUGH THE MID DAY AND AFTERNOON HOURS...REACHING PEAK INTENSITY LATE IN THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING BETWEEN 4 PM AND 7 PM CDT. * SOUTH WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. A FEW WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 45 MPH ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. * WINDS OF THIS STRENGTH WILL CAUSE A SIGNIFICANT INCONVENIENCE TO TRAVELERS DRIVING IN CROSS WINDS AND AROUND LARGE OBSTACLES SUCH AS GRAIN ELEVATORS. ALSO...WINDS OF THIS STRENGTH WILL CAUSE A SIGNIFICANT WILDFIRE CONCERN AS RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL FALL TO TO 20 TO 25 PERCENT BY MID AFTERNOON. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... MOTORISTS WILL NEED TO EXERCISE EXTRA CAUTION. MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER FAVORITE WEATHER SOURCE FOR THE LATEST FORECASTS AND STATEMENTS. && $$ 06
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 4:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Hodgeman | 44 min |
| Mar 24, 4:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Pawnee | 40 min |
| Mar 24, 5:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ellis | 28 min |
| Mar 24, 5:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Pratt | 39 min |
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.