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Winter Weather Advisory 5, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this winter weather advisory at Mar 27, 2016, 12:34 AM CDT for 7 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 27, 2016, 12:34 AM CDT (05:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 2016, 4:49 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Stafford County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:35 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
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 299 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
- 38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -220 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2122 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 3:53 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | DDC | Finney, Grant, Gray, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny and 7 more | 23 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.