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Winter Weather Advisory 2, NWS Dodge City, KS
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.
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
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.
- 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
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.