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Frost Advisory 4, NWS Dodge City, KS

October 4, 2016Hamilton County, Kansas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2016-10-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 305 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2016-10-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 305 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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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.