Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2012
Wind Advisory 33, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this wind advisory at Aug 4, 2012, 12:00 AM CDT for 13 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 101 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 4, 2012, 12:00 AM CDT (05:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2012, 1:41 AM CDT
- In force
- 101 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Stafford County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:01 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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 31 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
- 603 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3101 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
963 WWUS73 KDDC 040500 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1200 AM CDT SAT AUG 4 2012 ...STRONG WINDS TONIGHT... .STRONG WINDS OF 30 TO 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED BEHIND A DEPARTING THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX. KSZ063>066-077>081-087>090-040900- /O.NEW.KDDC.WI.Y.0033.120804T0500Z-120804T0900Z/ FINNEY-HODGEMAN-PAWNEE-STAFFORD-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA-PRATT- MEADE-CLARK-COMANCHE-BARBER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GARDEN CITY...KALVESTA...JETMORE... HANSTON...LARNED...BURDETT...ST. JOHN...STAFFORD...HUDSON... CIMARRON...MONTEZUMA...DODGE CITY...BUCKLIN...KINSLEY...LEWIS... GREENSBURG...HAVILAND...PRATT...MEADE...FOWLER...ASHLAND... MINNEOLA...COLDWATER...PROTECTION...MEDICINE LODGE...KIOWA... SUN CITY 1200 AM CDT SAT AUG 4 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM CDT SATURDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM CDT SATURDAY. * TIMING...FROM MIDNIGHT UNTIL 4 AM THIS MORNING * WINDS...SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 30 TO 45 MPH AND GUSTY PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ 06
1 follow-up statement
750 WWUS73 KDDC 040641 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 141 AM CDT SAT AUG 4 2012 KSZ063>066-077>081-087>090-040745- /O.CAN.KDDC.WI.Y.0033.000000T0000Z-120804T0900Z/ FINNEY-HODGEMAN-PAWNEE-STAFFORD-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA-PRATT- MEADE-CLARK-COMANCHE-BARBER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GARDEN CITY...KALVESTA...JETMORE... HANSTON...LARNED...BURDETT...ST. JOHN...STAFFORD...HUDSON... CIMARRON...MONTEZUMA...DODGE CITY...BUCKLIN...KINSLEY...LEWIS... GREENSBURG...HAVILAND...PRATT...MEADE...FOWLER...ASHLAND... MINNEOLA...COLDWATER...PROTECTION...MEDICINE LODGE...KIOWA... SUN CITY 141 AM CDT SAT AUG 4 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WINDS HAVE DECREASED SIGNIFICANTLY AND ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED TO BE AT WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA. $$ SUGDEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 7:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Stevens | 44 min |
| Aug 3, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 49 min |
| Aug 3, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 30 min |
| Aug 3, 8:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Gray | 48 min |
| Aug 3, 8:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Meade | 62 min |
| Aug 3, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Stevens | 51 min |
| Aug 3, 9:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ford | 62 min |
| Aug 3, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 45 min |
| Aug 3, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 30 min |
| Aug 3, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa | 65 min |
| Aug 3, 10:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Pratt | 56 min |
| Aug 4, 1:56 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ford | 49 min |
Nearby
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.