Alert archive / Kansas / Frost Advisories in 2016
Frost Advisory 3, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this frost advisory at May 2, 2016, 3:01 AM CDT for 11 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 2, 2016, 3:01 AM CDT (08:01 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2016, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Finney County, KS, Grant County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Morton County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 686 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
446 WWUS73 KDDC 020801 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 301 AM CDT MON MAY 2 2016 ...COLD TEMPERATURES ACROSS WESTERN KANSAS THIS MORNING... WITH CLOUD COVER CLEARING THIS MORNING, LOCATIONS ON THE HIGHER TERRAIN WILL EXPERIENCE TEMPERATURES NEAR FREEZING FOR SEVERAL HOURS THIS MORNING. KSZ043-044-061>063-074>076-084>086-021400- /O.NEW.KDDC.FR.Y.0003.160502T0801Z-160502T1400Z/ SCOTT-LANE-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-MORTON- STEVENS-SEWARD- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SCOTT CITY...SCOTT STATE LAKE... DIGHTON...SYRACUSE...LAKIN...DEERFIELD...GARDEN CITY... JOHNSON CITY...ULYSSES...SUBLETTE...SATANTA...ELKHART...HUGOTON... LIBERAL 301 AM CDT MON MAY 2 2016 /201 AM MDT MON MAY 2 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...LOW TO MID 30S. * IMPACTS...SEVERAL HOURS OF TEMPERATURES NEAR OR JUST ABOVE FREEZING WILL BE DAMAGING TO SOME VEGETATION. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT WIDESPREAD FROST IS EXPECTED. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$ TURNER
1 follow-up statement
628 WWUS73 KDDC 021340 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 840 AM CDT MON MAY 2 2016 KSZ043-044-061>063-074>076-084>086-021445- /O.EXP.KDDC.FR.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-160502T1400Z/ SCOTT-LANE-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-MORTON- STEVENS-SEWARD- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SCOTT CITY...SCOTT STATE LAKE... DIGHTON...SYRACUSE...LAKIN...DEERFIELD...GARDEN CITY... JOHNSON CITY...ULYSSES...SUBLETTE...SATANTA...ELKHART...HUGOTON... LIBERAL 840 AM CDT MON MAY 2 2016 /740 AM MDT MON MAY 2 2016/ ...FROST ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 9 AM CDT /8 AM MDT/ THIS MORNING... THE THREAT OF ADDITIONAL FROST IS OVER AS TEMPERATURES WERE STARTING TO WARM UP AFTER SUNRISE. $$
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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.