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Winter Storm Watch 1, NWS Dodge City, KS

October 13, 20184 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this winter storm watch at Oct 13, 2018, 3:20 AM MDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Oct 14, 2018, 3:00 AM MDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 13, 2018, 3:20 AM MDT (09:20 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 14, 2018, 3:00 AM MDT
Expired
Oct 13, 2018, 2:58 PM MDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS

Counties Hamilton County, KS, Lane County, KS, Scott County, KS, Trego County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:20 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

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 264 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, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2018-10-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2018-10-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 55 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
2766 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
149 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm watch went out at Oct 13, 3:09 AM MDT, 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 13, 3:09 AM MDT, 11 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 13, 3:20 AM MDTWinter Weather AdvisoryDDCEdwards, Ellis, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray and 15 more43 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Watches in Kansas, 2018Every winter storm watch 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.