Alert archive / Kansas / Frost Advisories in 2012
Frost Advisory 4, NWS Dodge City, KS
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.
- 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
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.