Alert archive / Kansas / Frost Advisories in 2016
Frost Advisory 2, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this frost advisory at Apr 30, 2016, 4:17 AM CDT for 6 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 30, 2016, 4:17 AM CDT (09:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2016, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Finney County, KS, Grant County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Scott County, KS, Stanton County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 475 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 85 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 334 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 360 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
132 WWUS73 KDDC 300917 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 417 AM CDT SAT APR 30 2016 KSZ043-061>063-074-075-301400- /O.NEW.KDDC.FR.Y.0002.160430T0917Z-160430T1400Z/ SCOTT-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-STANTON-GRANT- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SCOTT CITY...SCOTT STATE LAKE... SYRACUSE...LAKIN...DEERFIELD...GARDEN CITY...JOHNSON CITY... ULYSSES 417 AM CDT SAT APR 30 2016 /317 AM MDT SAT APR 30 2016/ ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CDT /8 AM MDT/ THIS MORNING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CDT /8 AM MDT/ THIS MORNING. * TEMPERATURE...LOWER TO MIDDLE 30S. NEAR FREEZING TEMPERATURES ESPECIALLY IN LOW LYING AREAS. * IMPACTS...TENDER VEGETATION COULD BE ADVERSELY AFFECTED BY THE COLD TEMPERATURES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT WIDESPREAD FROST IS EXPECTED. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$ JF
1 follow-up statement
880 WWUS73 KDDC 301424 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 924 AM CDT SAT APR 30 2016 KSZ043-061>063-074-075-301530- /O.EXP.KDDC.FR.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-160430T1400Z/ SCOTT-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-STANTON-GRANT- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SCOTT CITY...SCOTT STATE LAKE... SYRACUSE...LAKIN...DEERFIELD...GARDEN CITY...JOHNSON CITY... ULYSSES 924 AM CDT SAT APR 30 2016 /824 AM MDT SAT APR 30 2016/ ...FROST ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... $$
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.