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High Wind Warning 7, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 27, 2012Scott County, Kansas

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 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, 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2012-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1172 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2012-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 59 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 7:12 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCFinney, Grant, Haskell, Kearny, Seward, Stevens48 min
May 26, 7:59 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCFinney, Grant, Haskell, Kearny, Seward, Stevens61 min
May 26, 8:58 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCFinney, Gray, Haskell, Lane, Scott47 min
May 26, 9:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton, Kearny, Scott35 min
May 26, 9:27 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCGrant, Hamilton, Kearny, Morton, Stanton, Stevens48 min
May 26, 10:04 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCHaskell, Kearny, Seward, Stevens41 min
May 26, 10:41 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCFinney, Gray, Lane, Meade, Scott, Seward49 min
May 27, 4:57 AM CDTWind AdvisoryDDCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 21 more13 hr
May 27, 5:16 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCFord29 min
May 27, 5:55 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCRush50 min
May 27, 6:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Ness, Rush, Trego40 min
May 27, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Trego47 min
May 27, 6:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Trego32 min

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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.