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Freeze Watch 2, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this freeze watch at Oct 13, 2018, 7:38 PM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Oct 14, 2018, 10:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 13, 2018, 7:38 PM CDT (00:38 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 14, 2018, 10:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 14, 2018, 3:14 AM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Barber County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Stafford County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:37 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 1072 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 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 13, 6:44 PM CDT, 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 13, 6:44 PM CDT, 54 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 7:38 PM CDT | Hard Freeze Watch | DDC | Clark, Edwards, Ellis, Finney, Ford, Grant and 17 more | 8 hr |
| Oct 14, 3:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Lane, Scott | 55 min |
| Oct 14, 3:14 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche, Pratt | 30 hr |
| Oct 14, 3:14 AM CDT | Hard Freeze Warning | DDC | Clark, Edwards, Ellis, Finney, Ford, Grant and 18 more | 30 hr |
Nearby
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.