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Fire Weather Watch 4, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this fire weather watch at Feb 22, 2017, 2:59 AM CST for 17 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Feb 23, 2017, 1:00 PM CST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 22, 2017, 2:59 AM CST (08:59 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 23, 2017, 1:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Feb 22, 2017, 8:31 AM CST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:57 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 280 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
- 3696 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 8:31 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 14 more | 35 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.