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Winter Weather Advisory 2, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 4, 2017Morton County, Stevens County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this winter weather advisory at Apr 4, 2017, 2:54 PM CDT for Morton County, Stevens County, Kansas. It took effect at Apr 4, 2017, 3:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 4, 2017, 2:54 PM CDT (19:54 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 4, 2017, 3:00 PM CDT
Expired
Apr 4, 2017, 8:07 PM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS

Counties Morton County, KS, Stevens County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:54 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 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 218 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2017-04-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2017-04-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 219 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
967 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
219 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
224 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.