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Winter Weather Advisory 3, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this winter weather advisory at Jan 31, 2016, 2:45 PM CST for 10 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Feb 1, 2016, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 31, 2016, 2:45 PM CST (20:45 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 1, 2016, 6:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Feb 2, 2016, 4:20 AM CST
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Finney County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Rush County, KS, Stanton County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:44 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 840 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter weather advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this winter weather advisory went out at Jan 31, 2:37 PM CST, 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 31, 2:37 PM CST, 8 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 31, 5:59 AM CST, 8 hours 46 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 559 AM CST SUN JAN 31 2016 KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-011200- TREGO-ELLIS-SCOTT-LANE-NESS-RUSH-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-HODGEMAN- PAWNEE-STAFFORD-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA- PRATT-MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK-COMANCHE-BARBER- 559 AM CST SUN JAN 31 2016 /459 AM MST SUN JAN 31 2016/ ...WINTER STORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL...SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. DISCUSSION... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED... LIMITED SNOW RISK. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. DISCUSSION... A WINTER STORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MONDAY INTO EARLY TUESDAY. SEE THE LATEST WINTER WEATHER PRODUCT FOR DETAILS. HAZARDS WEATHER RISK... MONDAY... LIMITED EXCESSIVE COLD RISK. ELEVATED NON THUNDERSTORM WIND RISK. LIMITED ICE ACCUMULATION RISK. SIGNIFICANT SNOW RISK. TUESDAY... ELEVATED EXCESSIVE COLD RISK. ELEVATED NON THUNDERSTORM WIND RISK. ELEVATED SNOW RISK. WEDNESDAY... ELEVATED EXCESSIVE COLD RISK. THURSDAY... ELEVATED EXCESSIVE COLD RISK. FRIDAY... LIMITED EXCESSIVE COLD RISK. SATURDAY... LIMITED EXCESSIVE COLD RISK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT. && FOR MORE DETAILS VISIT OUR WEBPAGE HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC/EHWO JF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 31, 2:45 PM CST | Winter Storm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Lane, Ness, Rush, Scott, Trego | 51 hr |
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.