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Freeze Watch 1, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this freeze watch at Oct 8, 2017, 2:36 PM CDT for 8 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Oct 10, 2017, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 8, 2017, 2:36 PM CDT (19:36 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 10, 2017, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 9, 2017, 2:04 PM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Finney County, KS, Grant County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Morton County, KS, Scott County, KS, Stanton County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:37 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 2559 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze watch 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 freeze watch went out at Oct 8, 2:36 PM CDT, 0 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 8, 2:36 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 8, 3:29 AM CDT, 11 hours 7 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Dodge City KS 329 AM CDT Sun Oct 8 2017 KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-090830- 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- 329 AM CDT Sun Oct 8 2017 /229 AM MDT Sun Oct 8 2017/ This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of central...south central...southwest and west central Kansas. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. Days 2-7 Discussion ------------------- Strong north winds can be expected Monday with gusts as high as 45 mph. Frost is likely early Tuesday in far western Kansas as cold high pressure builds into the high plains. Days 2-7 Hazards ---------------- * Monday - Non thunderstorm wind: Elevated risk * Tuesday - Freeze: Elevated risk * Wednesday - Freeze: Limited risk * Thursday No hazards. * Friday No hazards. * Saturday No hazards. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will not be needed through tonight. && For more details visit our webpage http://weather.gov/ddc/ehwo jf
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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.