Alert archive / Kansas / Freeze Warnings in 2016
Freeze Warning 2, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this freeze warning at Oct 6, 2016, 5:32 PM MDT for Hamilton County, Kearny County, Scott County, Kansas. It took effect at Oct 7, 2016, 2:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 6, 2016, 5:32 PM MDT (23:32 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 7, 2016, 2:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Oct 7, 2016, 8:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Hamilton County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Scott County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:33 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 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 2039 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
086 WWUS73 KDDC 062332 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 632 PM CDT THU OCT 6 2016 KSZ043-061-062-071000- /O.UPG.KDDC.FR.Y.0005.161007T0800Z-161007T1400Z/ /O.NEW.KDDC.FZ.W.0002.161007T0800Z-161007T1400Z/ SCOTT-HAMILTON-KEARNY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SCOTT CITY...SCOTT STATE LAKE... SYRACUSE...LAKIN...DEERFIELD 632 PM CDT THU OCT 6 2016 /532 PM MDT THU OCT 6 2016/ ...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM CDT /2 AM MDT/ TO 9 AM CDT /8 AM MDT/ FRIDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A FREEZE WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM CDT /2 AM MDT/ TO 9 AM CDT /8 AM MDT/ FRIDAY. THE FROST ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * TEMPERATURE...AROUND 32 DEGREES TOWARD DAYBREAK FRIDAY. * IMPACTS...SENSITIVE VEGETATION MAY BE KILLED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION. && $$ KSZ030-031-044>046-063-064-074>077-084-085-071000- /O.CON.KDDC.FR.Y.0005.161007T0800Z-161007T1400Z/ TREGO-ELLIS-LANE-NESS-RUSH-FINNEY-HODGEMAN-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL- GRAY-MORTON-STEVENS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WAKEENEY...PHEIFER...HAYS...DIGHTON... NESS CITY...LA CROSSE...GARDEN CITY...JETMORE...HANSTON... JOHNSON CITY...ULYSSES...SUBLETTE...SATANTA...CIMARRON... MONTEZUMA...ELKHART...HUGOTON 632 PM CDT THU OCT 6 2016 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 9 AM CDT FRIDAY... * TEMPERATURE...AROUND 32 TO 36 DEGREES TOWARD DAYBREAK FRIDAY MORNING. * IMPACTS...SENSITIVE VEGETATION MAY BE DAMAGED OR KILLED. $$
2 follow-up statements
731 WWUS73 KDDC 070804 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 304 AM CDT FRI OCT 7 2016 KSZ043-061-062-071400- /O.CON.KDDC.FZ.W.0002.000000T0000Z-161007T1400Z/ SCOTT-HAMILTON-KEARNY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SCOTT CITY...SCOTT STATE LAKE... SYRACUSE...LAKIN...DEERFIELD 304 AM CDT FRI OCT 7 2016 /204 AM MDT FRI OCT 7 2016/ ...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CDT /8 AM MDT/ THIS MORNING... * TEMPERATURE...AROUND 32 DEGREES TOWARD DAYBREAK FRIDAY. * IMPACTS...SENSITIVE VEGETATION MAY BE KILLED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION. && $$ KSZ030-031-044>046-063-064-074>077-084-085-071400- /O.CON.KDDC.FR.Y.0005.000000T0000Z-161007T1400Z/ TREGO-ELLIS-LANE-NESS-RUSH-FINNEY-HODGEMAN-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL- GRAY-MORTON-STEVENS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WAKEENEY...PHEIFER...HAYS...DIGHTON... NESS CITY...LA CROSSE...GARDEN CITY...JETMORE...HANSTON... JOHNSON CITY...ULYSSES...SUBLETTE...SATANTA...CIMARRON... MONTEZUMA...ELKHART...HUGOTON 304 AM CDT FRI OCT 7 2016 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CDT THIS MORNING... * TEMPERATURE...AROUND 32 TO 36 DEGREES TOWARD DAYBREAK FRIDAY MORNING. * IMPACTS...SENSITIVE VEGETATION MAY BE DAMAGED OR KILLED. $$
890 WWUS73 KDDC 071335 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 835 AM CDT FRI OCT 7 2016 KSZ043-061-062-071445- /O.EXP.KDDC.FZ.W.0002.000000T0000Z-161007T1400Z/ SCOTT-HAMILTON-KEARNY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SCOTT CITY...SCOTT STATE LAKE... SYRACUSE...LAKIN...DEERFIELD 835 AM CDT FRI OCT 7 2016 /735 AM MDT FRI OCT 7 2016/ ...FREEZE WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 9 AM CDT /8 AM MDT/ THIS MORNING... TEMPERATURES ARE BEGINNING TO RISE THIS MORNING. THEREFORE, THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$ KSZ030-031-044>046-063-064-074>077-084-085-071445- /O.EXP.KDDC.FR.Y.0005.000000T0000Z-161007T1400Z/ TREGO-ELLIS-LANE-NESS-RUSH-FINNEY-HODGEMAN-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL- GRAY-MORTON-STEVENS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WAKEENEY...PHEIFER...HAYS...DIGHTON... NESS CITY...LA CROSSE...GARDEN CITY...JETMORE...HANSTON... JOHNSON CITY...ULYSSES...SUBLETTE...SATANTA...CIMARRON... MONTEZUMA...ELKHART...HUGOTON 835 AM CDT FRI OCT 7 2016 ...FROST ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 9 AM CDT THIS MORNING... TEMPERATURES ARE BEGINNING TO RISE THIS MORNING. THEREFORE, THE ADVISORY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$ 32
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 1:04 AM MDT | Dense Fog Advisory | DDC | Edwards, Ellis, Finney, Ford, Gray, Hamilton and 11 more | 8 hr |
| Oct 6, 1:41 AM MDT | Frost Advisory | DDC | Ellis, Finney, Grant, Gray, Hamilton, Haskell and 10 more | 30 hr |
| Oct 6, 4:11 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Barber | 64 min |
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.