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Fire Weather Watch 7, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this fire weather watch at Mar 15, 2012, 3:33 PM CDT for 12 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Mar 17, 2012, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 15, 2012, 3:33 PM CDT (20:33 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 17, 2012, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 16, 2012, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Finney County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray 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), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:31 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 298 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
- 3603 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
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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.