Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2012
Wind Advisory 39, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this wind advisory at Dec 3, 2012, 10:48 AM CST for 16 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 3, 2012, 10:48 AM CST (16:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 3, 2012, 2:32 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Clark 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, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:53 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 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 4062 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
073 WWUS73 KDDC 031648 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1048 AM CST MON DEC 3 2012 ...STRONG NORTH WINDS ARE EXPECTED TODAY... .STRONG NORTH WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED TODAY BEHIND A COLD FRONT. KSZ043-044-061>064-074>078-084>088-032200- /O.NEW.KDDC.WI.Y.0039.121203T1648Z-121203T2200Z/ SCOTT-LANE-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-HODGEMAN-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL- GRAY-FORD-MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SCOTT CITY...DIGHTON...SYRACUSE... LAKIN...DEERFIELD...GARDEN CITY...KALVESTA...JETMORE...HANSTON... JOHNSON CITY...ULYSSES...SUBLETTE...SATANTA...CIMARRON... MONTEZUMA...DODGE CITY...BUCKLIN...ELKHART...RICHFIELD... HUGOTON...MOSCOW...LIBERAL...KISMET...MEADE...FOWLER...ASHLAND... MINNEOLA 1048 AM CST MON DEC 3 2012 /948 AM MST MON DEC 3 2012/ ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CST /3 PM MST/ THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CST /3 PM MST/ THIS AFTERNOON. * TIMING...THE STRONG WINDS WILL PERSIST ACROSS FAR WESTERN KANSAS THROUGH 4 PM CST. THE HIGHER WINDS WILL REACH LOCATIONS FURTHER EAST BY NOON INCLUDING DODGE CITY. * WINDS...NORTH AT 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 40 MPH. * IMPACTS...DRIVING ON EAST TO WEST HIGHWAYS MAY BE PROBLEMATIC. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ FINCH
1 follow-up statement
629 WWUS73 KDDC 032032 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 232 PM CST MON DEC 3 2012 KSZ043-044-061>064-074>078-084>088-032145- /O.CAN.KDDC.WI.Y.0039.000000T0000Z-121203T2200Z/ SCOTT-LANE-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-HODGEMAN-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL- GRAY-FORD-MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SCOTT CITY...DIGHTON...SYRACUSE... LAKIN...DEERFIELD...GARDEN CITY...KALVESTA...JETMORE...HANSTON... JOHNSON CITY...ULYSSES...SUBLETTE...SATANTA...CIMARRON... MONTEZUMA...DODGE CITY...BUCKLIN...ELKHART...RICHFIELD... HUGOTON...MOSCOW...LIBERAL...KISMET...MEADE...FOWLER...ASHLAND... MINNEOLA 232 PM CST MON DEC 3 2012 /132 PM MST MON DEC 3 2012/ ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WINDS HAVE DROPPED TO BELOW WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA SO THE ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$ FINCH
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.