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Winter Weather Advisory 2, NWS Dodge City, KS

January 27, 20144 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this winter weather advisory at Jan 27, 2014, 12:48 PM CST for 4 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jan 27, 2014, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 27, 2014, 12:48 PM CST (18:48 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 27, 2014, 6:00 PM CST
Expired
Jan 27, 2014, 11:41 PM CST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS

Counties Finney County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Scott County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:46 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

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 262 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2014-01-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2014-01-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 173 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
876 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
88 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
173 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
409 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 26, 7:03 PM CSTHigh Wind WarningDDCEdwards, Finney, Ford, Gray, Haskell, Hodgeman and 4 more110 min

Nearby

Winter Weather Advisories in Kansas, 2014Every winter weather advisory in 2014

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.