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Winter Weather Advisory 3, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this winter weather advisory at Apr 29, 2017, 3:58 AM CDT for 7 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Apr 29, 2017, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 27 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 29, 2017, 3:58 AM CDT (08:58 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 29, 2017, 7:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2017, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Ellis County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Seward County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:58 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 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 330 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
- 1009 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 88 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 485 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 853 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter weather advisory 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 winter weather advisory went out at Apr 29, 3:06 AM CDT, 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 29, 3:06 AM CDT, 52 minutes before
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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.