Alert archive / Kansas / Freeze Warnings in 2016
Freeze Warning 4, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this freeze warning at Nov 11, 2016, 8:58 AM CST for 9 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Nov 12, 2016, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for 8 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
- Nov 11, 2016, 8:58 AM CST (14:58 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 12, 2016, 12:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Nov 12, 2016, 8:00 AM CST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ford County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Stafford County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:02 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, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 56 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
- 1256 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
981 WWUS73 KDDC 111458 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 858 AM CST FRI NOV 11 2016 KSZ066-078>081-087>090-121200- /O.UPG.KDDC.FZ.A.0002.161112T0600Z-161112T1400Z/ /O.NEW.KDDC.FZ.W.0004.161112T0600Z-161112T1400Z/ STAFFORD-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA-PRATT-MEADE-CLARK-COMANCHE-BARBER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ST. JOHN...STAFFORD...MACKSVILLE... DODGE CITY...KINSLEY...LEWIS...GREENSBURG...HAVILAND...PRATT... MEADE...PLAINS CITY...FOWLER...ASHLAND...MINNEOLA...COLDWATER... LAKE COLDWATER...PROTECTION...MEDICINE LODGE...KIOWA 858 AM CST FRI NOV 11 2016 ...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 8 AM CST SATURDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A FREEZE WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 8 AM CST SATURDAY. THE FREEZE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * TEMPERATURE...UPPER 20S TO LOWER 30S. * TIMING...COLDEST TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED AROUND SUNRISE SATURDAY MORNING. * IMPACTS...SUBFREEZING TEMPERATURES AND WIDESPREAD FROST WILL DAMAGE OR KILL VEGETATION. EITHER COVER OUTDOOR PLANTS OR BRING THEM INDOORS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION. && $$
3 follow-up statements
138 WWUS73 KDDC 120337 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 937 PM CST FRI NOV 11 2016 KSZ066-078>081-087>090-121145- /O.CON.KDDC.FZ.W.0004.161112T0600Z-161112T1400Z/ STAFFORD-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA-PRATT-MEADE-CLARK-COMANCHE-BARBER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ST. JOHN...STAFFORD...MACKSVILLE... DODGE CITY...KINSLEY...LEWIS...GREENSBURG...HAVILAND...PRATT... MEADE...PLAINS CITY...FOWLER...ASHLAND...MINNEOLA...COLDWATER... LAKE COLDWATER...PROTECTION...MEDICINE LODGE...KIOWA 937 PM CST FRI NOV 11 2016 ...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM CST SATURDAY... * TEMPERATURE...UPPER 20S TO LOWER 30S. * TIMING...COLDEST TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED AROUND SUNRISE SATURDAY MORNING. * IMPACTS...SUBFREEZING TEMPERATURES AND WIDESPREAD FROST WILL DAMAGE OR KILL VEGETATION. EITHER COVER OUTDOOR PLANTS OR BRING THEM INDOORS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION. && $$
771 WWUS73 KDDC 121118 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 518 AM CST SAT NOV 12 2016 KSZ066-078>081-087>090-121400- /O.CON.KDDC.FZ.W.0004.000000T0000Z-161112T1400Z/ STAFFORD-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA-PRATT-MEADE-CLARK-COMANCHE-BARBER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ST. JOHN...STAFFORD...MACKSVILLE... DODGE CITY...KINSLEY...LEWIS...GREENSBURG...HAVILAND...PRATT... MEADE...PLAINS CITY...FOWLER...ASHLAND...MINNEOLA...COLDWATER... LAKE COLDWATER...PROTECTION...MEDICINE LODGE...KIOWA 518 AM CST SAT NOV 12 2016 ...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM CST THIS MORNING... * TEMPERATURE...26 TO 30 DEGREES * TIMING...THROUGH 8 AM THIS MORNING. * IMPACTS...WIDESPREAD KILLING FREEZE THIS MORNING WILL END THE GROWING SEASON ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF SOUTHWEST AND MOST IF NOT ALL OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION. && $$
457 WWUS73 KDDC 121338 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 738 AM CST SAT NOV 12 2016 KSZ066-078>081-087>090-121445- /O.EXP.KDDC.FZ.W.0004.000000T0000Z-161112T1400Z/ STAFFORD-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA-PRATT-MEADE-CLARK-COMANCHE-BARBER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ST. JOHN...STAFFORD...MACKSVILLE... DODGE CITY...KINSLEY...LEWIS...GREENSBURG...HAVILAND...PRATT... MEADE...PLAINS CITY...FOWLER...ASHLAND...MINNEOLA...COLDWATER... LAKE COLDWATER...PROTECTION...MEDICINE LODGE...KIOWA 738 AM CST SAT NOV 12 2016 ...FREEZE WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 8 AM CST THIS MORNING... $$
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.