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Fire Weather Watch 2, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this fire weather watch at Jan 18, 2014, 2:02 PM CST for Barber County, Clark County, Comanche County, Kansas. It took effect at Jan 19, 2014, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 18, 2014, 2:02 PM CST (20:02 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 19, 2014, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Jan 19, 2014, 2:02 AM CST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:00 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
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 278 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
- 2468 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 373 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 398 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 18, 1:43 AM CST | Wind Advisory | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 20 more | 16 hr |
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.