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Winter Weather Advisory 13, NWS Wichita, KS

December 3, 20114 counties in Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this winter weather advisory at Dec 3, 2011, 3:14 AM CST for 4 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Dec 3, 2011, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 14 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 3, 2011, 3:14 AM CST (09:14 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 3, 2011, 6:00 AM CST
Expired
Dec 3, 2011, 8:05 PM CST
In force
14 hr
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS

Counties Barton County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Russell County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 167 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2011-12-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2011-12-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 177 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
581 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
177 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
153 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.