Alert archive / Kansas / Winter Weather Advisories in 2018
Winter Weather Advisory 2, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this winter weather advisory at Jan 15, 2018, 3:23 AM CST for Ellis County, Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 15, 2018, 3:23 AM CST (09:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 15, 2018, 9:57 AM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Ellis County, KS, Trego County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:24 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
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 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
- 3018 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 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 Jan 14, 5:28 PM CST, 9 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 14, 5:28 PM CST, 9 hours 55 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 14, 4:29 AM CST, 22 hours 54 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Dodge City KS 429 AM CST Sun Jan 14 2018 KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-151100- Trego-Ellis-Scott-Lane-Ness-Rush-Hamilton-Kearny-Finney-Hodgeman- Pawnee-Stafford-Stanton-Grant-Haskell-Gray-Ford-Edwards-Kiowa- Pratt-Morton-Stevens-Seward-Meade-Clark-Comanche-Barber- 429 AM CST Sun Jan 14 2018 /329 AM MST Sun Jan 14 2018/ This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of central Kansas, south central Kansas, southwest Kansas, and west central Kansas. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday Wind chill temperatures could drop into the teens below zero late Monday night into Tuesday morning over central Kansas. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will not be needed.
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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.