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Dense Fog Advisory 16, NWS Dodge City, KS

September 30, 201211 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this dense fog advisory at Sep 30, 2012, 3:50 AM CDT for 11 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Sep 30, 2012, 4:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 30, 2012, 3:50 AM CDT (08:50 UTC)
In effect from: Sep 30, 2012, 4:00 AM CDT
Expired: Sep 30, 2012, 10:00 AM 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, Lane County, KS, Morton County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:52 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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this dense fog advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this dense fog advisory went out at Sep 30, 3:34 AM CDT, 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 30, 3:34 AM CDT, 16 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 30, 5:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Scott	47 min

Nearby

Dense Fog Advisories in Kansas, 2012 Every dense fog advisory in 2012

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.