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High Wind Warning 4, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this high wind warning at Feb 18, 2018, 11:58 AM CST for Ford County, Hodgeman County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 18, 2018, 11:58 AM CST (17:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 18, 2018, 3:01 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Ford County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 13 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
- 2571 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 480 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 595 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
425 WWUS73 KDDC 181758 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Dodge City KS 1158 AM CST Sun Feb 18 2018 KSZ064-078-182200- /O.NEW.KDDC.HW.W.0004.180218T1800Z-180218T2200Z/ Hodgeman-Ford- Including the cities of Jetmore, Hanston, and Dodge City 1158 AM CST Sun Feb 18 2018 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... The National Weather Service in Dodge City has issued a High Wind Warning, which is in effect until 4 PM CST this afternoon. * TIMING...Noon until 4 PM this afternoon * WINDS...Southwest 30 to 40 mph with gusts to near 60 mph * IMPACTS...High profile vehicles may be blown over on east-west roadways. Blowing dust may reduce visibilities to locally less than a mile near open fields. 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
821 WWUS73 KDDC 182101 NPWDDC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Dodge City KS 301 PM CST Sun Feb 18 2018 KSZ064-078-182215- /O.CAN.KDDC.HW.W.0004.000000T0000Z-180218T2200Z/ Hodgeman-Ford- Including the cities of Jetmore, Hanston, and Dodge City 301 PM CST Sun Feb 18 2018 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... The National Weather Service in Dodge City has cancelled the High Wind Warning. After a brief period of high winds around noon, winds decreased to below high wind warning criteria. Strong, gusty winds will continue into the evening hours but gusts will be less than 50 mph. $$
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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.