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Frost Advisory 3, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 2, 201611 counties in Kansas

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.

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 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2016-05-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 6 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2016-05-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -11 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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.