Alert archive / Kansas / High Wind Warnings in 2012
High Wind Warning 7, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this high wind warning at May 27, 2012, 1:41 AM CDT for Scott County, Kansas. It was in force for 79 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 2012, 1:41 AM CDT (06:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2012, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 79 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
County Scott County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 1172 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2320 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
640 WWUS73 KDDC 270641 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 141 AM CDT SUN MAY 27 2012 ...HIGH WINDS EXPECTED THOUGH 3 AM CDT... .COLLAPSING THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAUSING PERIODS OF GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. KSZ043-270800- /O.NEW.KDDC.HW.W.0007.120527T0641Z-120527T0800Z/ SCOTT- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...SCOTT CITY 141 AM CDT SUN MAY 27 2012 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CDT EARLY THIS MORNING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CDT EARLY THIS MORNING. * TIMING...THROUGH 3 AM. * WINDS...WIND WILL BE FROM THE SOUTH GUSTING AT ABOVE 60 MPH AT TIMES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 7:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Finney, Grant, Haskell, Kearny, Seward, Stevens | 48 min |
| May 26, 7:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Finney, Grant, Haskell, Kearny, Seward, Stevens | 61 min |
| May 26, 8:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Finney, Gray, Haskell, Lane, Scott | 47 min |
| May 26, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny, Scott | 35 min |
| May 26, 9:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Morton, Stanton, Stevens | 48 min |
| May 26, 10:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Haskell, Kearny, Seward, Stevens | 41 min |
| May 26, 10:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Finney, Gray, Lane, Meade, Scott, Seward | 49 min |
| May 27, 4:57 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 21 more | 13 hr |
| May 27, 5:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ford | 29 min |
| May 27, 5:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Rush | 50 min |
| May 27, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Ness, Rush, Trego | 40 min |
| May 27, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 47 min |
| May 27, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 32 min |
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.