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High Wind Warning 3, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this high wind warning at Nov 17, 2015, 11:21 AM CST for 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 17, 2015, 11:21 AM CST (17:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 17, 2015, 3:54 PM CST
- In force
- 5 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 17:20 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 17, 1:00 PM CST | NON-TSTM WND GST 60 | 1 Nne Syracuse, KS | MESONET STATION SYRACUSE /K3K3/ |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 1629 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 90 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
710 WWUS73 KDDC 171721 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1121 AM CST TUE NOV 17 2015 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM THIS EVENING... KSZ043-061>063-180000- /O.NEW.KDDC.HW.W.0003.151117T1721Z-151118T0000Z/ SCOTT-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SCOTT CITY...SYRACUSE...LAKIN... DEERFIELD...GARDEN CITY...KALVESTA 1121 AM CST TUE NOV 17 2015 /1021 AM MST TUE NOV 17 2015/ ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST /5 PM MST/ THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST /5 PM MST/ THIS EVENING. * TIMING...11 AM UNTIL 6 PM. * WINDS...30 TO 40 WITH GUSTS TO 60 MPH. * IMPACTS...STRONG CROSSWINDS WILL CREATE HAZARDOUS TRAVEL CONDITIONS ESPECIALLY ON EAST WEST ROADS. POWER DISRUPTIONS COULD OCCUR. AREAS OF REDUCED VISIBILITIES CAN BE EXPECTED WHERE BLOWING SNOW IS OCCURRING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. && $$
1 follow-up statement
524 WWUS73 KDDC 172154 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 354 PM CST TUE NOV 17 2015 KSZ043-061>063-172300- /O.CAN.KDDC.HW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-151118T0000Z/ SCOTT-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SCOTT CITY...SYRACUSE...LAKIN... DEERFIELD...GARDEN CITY...KALVESTA 354 PM CST TUE NOV 17 2015 /254 PM MST TUE NOV 17 2015/ ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH WIND WARNING. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 16, 6:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DDC | Gray, Meade, Seward | 40 min |
| Nov 16, 6:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny, Stanton | 60 min |
| Nov 16, 6:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ness, Trego | 43 min |
| Nov 16, 6:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray | 33 min |
| Nov 16, 6:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Ness, Trego | 48 min |
| Nov 16, 6:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Lane, Scott | 64 min |
| Nov 16, 7:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DDC | Scott | 27 min |
| Nov 16, 7:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman | 45 min |
| Nov 16, 7:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 26 min |
| Nov 16, 7:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Grant, Haskell, Kearny, Meade, Seward and 2 more | 57 min |
| Nov 16, 7:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DDC | Hodgeman, Ness | 19 min |
| Nov 16, 8:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 36 min |
| Nov 16, 8:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman, Meade | 34 min |
| Nov 16, 9:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Hodgeman | 34 min |
| Nov 16, 9:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee, Rush | 42 min |
| Nov 16, 9:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche | 50 min |
| Nov 16, 10:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche | 65 min |
| Nov 16, 10:22 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ellis, Pawnee, Rush | 68 min |
| Nov 16, 10:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 28 min |
| Nov 16, 10:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche, Kiowa, Pratt | 42 min |
| Nov 16, 10:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche, Kiowa | 56 min |
| Nov 16, 11:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche, Kiowa, Pratt | 41 min |
| Nov 16, 11:48 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Barber, Pratt | 42 min |
| Nov 17, 3:42 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | DDC | Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Lane, Morton, Scott and 2 more | 20 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.