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High Wind Warning 3, NWS Dodge City, KS

January 22, 20187 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this high wind warning at Jan 22, 2018, 3:06 PM CST for 7 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 114 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 22, 2018, 3:06 PM CST (21:06 UTC)
Expired
Jan 22, 2018, 5:00 PM CST
In force
114 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS

Counties Barber County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Stafford County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:04 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 77 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2018-01-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2018-01-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -12 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
684 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

686 
WWUS73 KDDC 222106
NPWDDC

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
306 PM CST Mon Jan 22 2018

KSZ065-066-079>081-222300-
/O.EXP.KDDC.HW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-180122T2100Z/
/O.NEW.KDDC.HW.W.0003.180122T2106Z-180122T2300Z/
Pawnee-Stafford-Edwards-Kiowa-Pratt-
Including the cities of Larned, St. John, Stafford, Macksville, 
Kinsley, Lewis, Greensburg, Haviland, and Pratt
306 PM CST Mon Jan 22 2018

...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON...

The National Weather Service in Dodge City has extended a High 
Wind Warning until 5 PM CST this afternoon. 

* TIMING...Through 5 PM CST this afternoon

* WINDS...Sustained 35 to 45 mph with occasional gusts around 60 
  mph 

* IMPACTS...Hazardous travel conditions expected along east-west 
  highways, especially around grain elevators. Light structural 
  damage and sporadic, intermittent power outages are also 
  possible in these winds. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A High Wind Warning means a hazardous high wind event is expected
or occurring. Sustained wind speeds of at least 40 mph or gusts
of 58 mph or more can lead to property damage.

&&

$$

KSZ030-031-045-046-064-078-222215-
/O.EXP.KDDC.HW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-180122T2100Z/
Trego-Ellis-Ness-Rush-Hodgeman-Ford-
Including the cities of Wakeeney, Pheifer, Hays, Ness City, 
La Crosse, Jetmore, Hanston, and Dodge City
306 PM CST Mon Jan 22 2018

...HIGH WIND WARNING HAS EXPIRED...

$$

KSZ089-090-222300-
/O.NEW.KDDC.HW.W.0003.180122T2106Z-180122T2300Z/
Comanche-Barber-
Including the cities of Coldwater, Lake Coldwater, Protection, 
Medicine Lodge, and Kiowa
306 PM CST Mon Jan 22 2018

...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON...

The National Weather Service in Dodge City has issued a High Wind
Warning, which is in effect until 5 PM CST this afternoon. 

* TIMING...Through 5 PM CST this afternoon

* WINDS...Sustained 35 to 45 mph with occasional gusts around 60 
  mph 

* IMPACTS...Hazardous travel conditions expected along east-west 
  highways, especially around grain elevators. Light structural 
  damage and sporadic, intermittent power outages are also 
  possible in these winds. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A High Wind Warning means a hazardous high wind event is expected
or occurring. Sustained wind speeds of at least 40 mph or gusts
of 58 mph or more can lead to property damage.

&&

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 22, 9:18 AM CSTHigh Wind WarningDDCEdwards, Ellis, Ford, Hodgeman, Kiowa, Ness and 5 more6 hr

Nearby

High Wind Warnings in Kansas, 2018Every high wind warning in 2018

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.