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Frost Advisory 4, NWS Dodge City, KS

October 9, 201216 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this frost advisory at Oct 9, 2012, 7:35 PM CDT for 16 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Oct 10, 2012, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 9, 2012, 7:35 PM CDT (00:35 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 10, 2012, 1:00 AM CDT
Expired
Oct 10, 2012, 9:00 AM CDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS

Counties Edwards 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, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Scott County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stanton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:32 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 38 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 2012-10-10Temperature 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°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2012-10-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -19 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1369 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
132 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

256 
WWUS73 KDDC 100035
NPWDDC

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
735 PM CDT TUE OCT 9 2012

...WIDESPREAD FROST EXPECTED LATE TONIGHT...

.AS A LARGE AREA OF HIGH PRESSURE SINKS INTO WESTERN AND CENTRAL
KANSAS LATE TONIGHT COLD TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED IN THE 33 TO 36
DEGREE RANGE. THESE CONDITIONS ALONG WITH MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES AND
LIGHT WINDS WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR WIDESPREAD FROST.

KSZ043-044-061>066-074>081-101400-
/O.NEW.KDDC.FR.Y.0004.121010T0600Z-121010T1400Z/
SCOTT-LANE-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-HODGEMAN-PAWNEE-STAFFORD-
STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA-PRATT-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SCOTT CITY...DIGHTON...SYRACUSE...
LAKIN...DEERFIELD...GARDEN CITY...KALVESTA...JETMORE...HANSTON...
LARNED...BURDETT...ST. JOHN...STAFFORD...HUDSON...JOHNSON CITY...
ULYSSES...SUBLETTE...SATANTA...CIMARRON...MONTEZUMA...
DODGE CITY...BUCKLIN...KINSLEY...LEWIS...GREENSBURG...HAVILAND...
PRATT
735 PM CDT TUE OCT 9 2012 /635 PM MDT TUE OCT 9 2012/

...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM CDT /MIDNIGHT MDT/ TO 9 AM
CDT /8 AM MDT/ WEDNESDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A FROST
ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM CDT /MIDNIGHT MDT/ TO
9 AM CDT /8 AM MDT/ WEDNESDAY. 

* TEMPERATURE...33 TO 36 DEGREES.

* IMPACTS...WIDESPREAD FROST MAY KILL SENSITIVE VEGETATION.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR
PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED.

&&

$$

06
1 follow-up statement
018 
WWUS73 KDDC 101351
NPWDDC

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
851 AM CDT WED OCT 10 2012


KSZ043-044-061>066-074>081-101500-
/O.EXP.KDDC.FR.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-121010T1400Z/
SCOTT-LANE-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-HODGEMAN-PAWNEE-STAFFORD-
STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA-PRATT-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SCOTT CITY...DIGHTON...SYRACUSE...
LAKIN...DEERFIELD...GARDEN CITY...KALVESTA...JETMORE...HANSTON...
LARNED...BURDETT...ST. JOHN...STAFFORD...HUDSON...JOHNSON CITY...
ULYSSES...SUBLETTE...SATANTA...CIMARRON...MONTEZUMA...
DODGE CITY...BUCKLIN...KINSLEY...LEWIS...GREENSBURG...HAVILAND...
PRATT
851 AM CDT WED OCT 10 2012 /751 AM MDT WED OCT 10 2012/

...FROST ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 9 AM CDT /8 AM MDT/ THIS
MORNING...

TEMPERATURES HAVE WARMED TO ABOVE FREEZING SO THE FROST ADVISORY
HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

$$


FINCH

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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.