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Frost Advisory 4, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this frost advisory at Oct 4, 2016, 2:00 PM MDT for Hamilton County, Kansas. It took effect at Oct 5, 2016, 3:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 4, 2016, 2:00 PM MDT (20:00 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 5, 2016, 3:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Oct 5, 2016, 8:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
County Hamilton County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:00 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 305 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -361 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1323 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 305 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 292 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
223 WWUS73 KDDC 042000 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 300 PM CDT TUE OCT 4 2016 KSZ061-050400- /O.NEW.KDDC.FR.Y.0004.161005T0900Z-161005T1400Z/ HAMILTON- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...SYRACUSE 200 PM MDT TUE OCT 4 2016 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 8 AM MDT WEDNESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 8 AM MDT WEDNESDAY. * TEMPERATURE...33 TO 37 DEGREES FOR SEVERAL HOURS WEDNESDAY MORNING. * IMPACTS...SENSITIVE VEGETATION MAY BE DAMAGED OR KILLED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT WIDESPREAD FROST IS EXPECTED. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$ TURNER
1 follow-up statement
661 WWUS73 KDDC 050348 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1048 PM CDT TUE OCT 4 2016 KSZ061-051400- /O.CON.KDDC.FR.Y.0004.161005T0900Z-161005T1400Z/ HAMILTON- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...SYRACUSE 948 PM MDT TUE OCT 4 2016 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 8 AM MDT WEDNESDAY... * TEMPERATURE...33 TO 37 DEGREES FOR SEVERAL HOURS WEDNESDAY MORNING. * IMPACTS...SENSITIVE VEGETATION MAY BE DAMAGED OR KILLED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT WIDESPREAD FROST IS EXPECTED. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$
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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.