Alert archive / Kansas / Frost Advisories in 2012
Frost Advisory 1, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this frost advisory at Apr 7, 2012, 4:46 AM CDT for 20 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Apr 8, 2012, 4:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 7, 2012, 4:46 AM CDT (09:46 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 8, 2012, 4:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 8, 2012, 9:03 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Trego County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:44 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 743 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
952 WWUS73 KDDC 070946 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 446 AM CDT SAT APR 7 2012 ...COLD TEMPERATURES EXPECTED TONIGHT UNDER CLEAR AND CALM CONDITIONS... .COLD HIGH PRESSURE IS EXPECTED TO BE CENTERED OVER WESTERN AND CENTRAL KANSAS TONIGHT. THIS WILL ALLOW FOR A FOUR TO SIX HOUR PERIOD OF NEARLY CALM WINDS UNDER CLEAR SKIES AND A DRY ATMOSPHERE. KSZ030-031-043>046-061>065-074>078-084>087-072100- /O.NEW.KDDC.FR.Y.0001.120408T0900Z-120408T1500Z/ TREGO-ELLIS-SCOTT-LANE-NESS-RUSH-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-HODGEMAN- PAWNEE-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD- MEADE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WAKEENEY...CEDAR BLUFF RESERVOIR... HAYS...ELLIS...SCOTT CITY...DIGHTON...NESS CITY...LA CROSSE... RUSH CENTER...SYRACUSE...LAKIN...DEERFIELD...GARDEN CITY... KALVESTA...JETMORE...HANSTON...LARNED...BURDETT...JOHNSON CITY... ULYSSES...SUBLETTE...SATANTA...CIMARRON...MONTEZUMA... DODGE CITY...BUCKLIN...ELKHART...RICHFIELD...HUGOTON...MOSCOW... LIBERAL...KISMET...MEADE...FOWLER 446 AM CDT SAT APR 7 2012 /346 AM MDT SAT APR 7 2012/ ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM CDT /3 AM MDT/ TO 10 AM CDT /9 AM MDT/ SUNDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM CDT /3 AM MDT/ TO 10 AM CDT /9 AM MDT/ SUNDAY. * TEMPERATURE...OVERNIGHT LOWS OF 32 TO 35 DEGREES ARE EXPECTED. SOME ISOLATED LOW-LYING AREAS MAY SEE LOWS AS COLD AS 30 DEGREES. * IMPACTS...GIVEN THE SUBSTANTIAL EARLY GREEN-UP AND START TO THE GROWING SEASON...MANY PLANTS...EARLY SEASON VEGETABLES...AND OTHER TENDER VEGETATION COULD BE IMPACTED BY TEMPERATURES THIS COLD. THE MOST SUSCEPTIBLE AREAS WILL BE WITHIN STREAM AND CREEK VALLEYS AND OTHER LOW-LYING AREAS WHERE COLD AIR DRAINAGE CAN OCCUR. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$ UMSCHEID
2 follow-up statements
432 WWUS73 KDDC 071812 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 112 PM CDT SAT APR 7 2012 ...COLD TEMPERATURES EXPECTED SUNDAY MORNING UNDER CLEAR AND CALM CONDITIONS... .COLD HIGH PRESSURE IS EXPECTED TO BE CENTERED OVER WESTERN AND CENTRAL KANSAS SUNDAY MORNING. THIS WILL ALLOW FOR A FOUR TO SIX HOUR PERIOD OF NEARLY CALM WINDS UNDER CLEAR SKIES AND A DRY ATMOSPHERE. KSZ030-031-043>046-061>065-074>078-084>087-081500- /O.CON.KDDC.FR.Y.0001.120408T0900Z-120408T1500Z/ TREGO-ELLIS-SCOTT-LANE-NESS-RUSH-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-HODGEMAN- PAWNEE-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD- MEADE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WAKEENEY...CEDAR BLUFF RESERVOIR... HAYS...ELLIS...SCOTT CITY...DIGHTON...NESS CITY...LA CROSSE... RUSH CENTER...SYRACUSE...LAKIN...DEERFIELD...GARDEN CITY... KALVESTA...JETMORE...HANSTON...LARNED...BURDETT...JOHNSON CITY... ULYSSES...SUBLETTE...SATANTA...CIMARRON...MONTEZUMA... DODGE CITY...BUCKLIN...ELKHART...RICHFIELD...HUGOTON...MOSCOW... LIBERAL...KISMET...MEADE...FOWLER 112 PM CDT SAT APR 7 2012 /1212 PM MDT SAT APR 7 2012/ ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM CDT /3 AM MDT/ TO 10 AM CDT /9 AM MDT/ SUNDAY... * TEMPERATURE...OVERNIGHT LOWS OF 32 TO 35 DEGREES ARE EXPECTED. SOME ISOLATED LOW-LYING AREAS MAY SEE LOWS AS COLD AS 30 DEGREES. * IMPACTS...GIVEN THE SUBSTANTIAL EARLY GREEN-UP AND START TO THE GROWING SEASON...MANY PLANTS...EARLY SEASON VEGETABLES... AND OTHER TENDER VEGETATION COULD BE IMPACTED BY TEMPERATURES THIS COLD. THE MOST SUSCEPTIBLE AREAS WILL BE WITHIN STREAM AND CREEK VALLEYS AND OTHER LOW-LYING AREAS WHERE COLD AIR DRAINAGE CAN OCCUR. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$ SUGDEN
674 WWUS73 KDDC 081403 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 903 AM CDT SUN APR 8 2012 KSZ030-031-043>046-061>065-074>078-084>087-081515- /O.CAN.KDDC.FR.Y.0001.000000T0000Z-120408T1500Z/ TREGO-ELLIS-SCOTT-LANE-NESS-RUSH-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-HODGEMAN- PAWNEE-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD- MEADE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WAKEENEY...CEDAR BLUFF RESERVOIR... HAYS...ELLIS...SCOTT CITY...DIGHTON...NESS CITY...LA CROSSE... RUSH CENTER...SYRACUSE...LAKIN...DEERFIELD...GARDEN CITY... KALVESTA...JETMORE...HANSTON...LARNED...BURDETT...JOHNSON CITY... ULYSSES...SUBLETTE...SATANTA...CIMARRON...MONTEZUMA... DODGE CITY...BUCKLIN...ELKHART...RICHFIELD...HUGOTON...MOSCOW... LIBERAL...KISMET...MEADE...FOWLER 903 AM CDT SUN APR 8 2012 /803 AM MDT SUN APR 8 2012/ ...FROST ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS CANCELLED THE FROST ADVISORY. TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE TO WARM THIS MORNING AND ARE NO LONGER AT ADVISORY CRITERIA. $$ SUGDEN
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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.