Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2012
Wind Advisory 35, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this wind advisory at Oct 4, 2012, 12:56 AM CDT for 5 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 4, 2012, 12:56 AM CDT (05:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 4, 2012, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Grant County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 134 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -254 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2385 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
045 WWUS73 KDDC 040556 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1256 AM CDT THU OCT 4 2012 ...STRONG WINDS WILL OCCUR FOR A FEW HOURS EARLY THIS MORNING... .A COLD FRONT WAS PUSHING THROUGH SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS EARLY THIS MORNING. STRONG NORTHERLY WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED FOR A FEW HOURS BEHIND THE FRONT. KSZ075-076-084>086-040800- /O.NEW.KDDC.WI.Y.0035.121004T0556Z-121004T0800Z/ GRANT-HASKELL-MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ULYSSES...SUBLETTE...SATANTA... ELKHART...RICHFIELD...HUGOTON...MOSCOW...LIBERAL...KISMET 1256 AM CDT THU OCT 4 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CDT EARLY THIS MORNING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CDT EARLY THIS MORNING. * TIMING...STRONG WINDS WILL OCCUR FOR A FEW HOURS IMMEDIATELY BEHIND THE FRONT. * WINDS...NORTH WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 55 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED. * IMPACTS...THE STRONG WINDS WILL MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE IN HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES ON EAST WEST ROADS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ GERARD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4, 2:32 PM CDT | Freeze Watch | DDC | Clark, Edwards, Ellis, Finney, Ford, Grant and 19 more | 24 hr |
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.