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Freeze Watch 2, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this freeze watch at Oct 21, 2020, 2:00 PM CDT for 22 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Oct 23, 2020, 5:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 21, 2020, 2:00 PM CDT (19:00 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 23, 2020, 5:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 22, 2020, 3:10 PM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
All 22 counties
Clark County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Trego County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:58 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 318 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
- 112 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -319 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1195 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 21, 11:38 AM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 21, 11:38 AM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 21, 5:20 AM CDT, 8 hours 40 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Dodge City KS 520 AM CDT Wed Oct 21 2020 KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-221030- 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- 520 AM CDT Wed Oct 21 2020 /420 AM MDT Wed Oct 21 2020/ This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of central...south central...southwest and west central Kansas. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. Days 2-7 Discussion ------------------- Two significant arctic air events will unfold across western Kansas through early next week. The first front will move south late Thursday. Near-critical fire weather condition may develop ahead of the front across far southwest Kansas Thursday afternoon. A killing freeze is expected to occur either Friday morning or Saturday morning as lows are forecast to be in the upper 20s each night across portions of southwest Kansas, especially west of a Liberal to Hays line. A more significant arctic air outbreak is forecast Sunday into early next week, with winter precipitation possible Monday. Days 2-7 Hazards ---------------- * Thursday - Lightning: Limited risk - Non thunderstorm wind: Limited risk - Freeze: Extreme risk - Fire weather: Significant risk * Friday - Non thunderstorm wind: Limited risk - Freeze: Extreme risk * Saturday - Non thunderstorm wind: Limited risk - Freeze: Significant risk - Fire weather: Elevated risk * Sunday - Non thunderstorm wind: Limited risk - Freeze: Extreme risk * Monday - Freeze: Extreme risk * Tuesday - Freeze: Extreme risk .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will not be needed through tonight. && For more details visit our webpage https://weather.gov/crh/ghwo?sid=ddc
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 21, 3:19 PM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 15 more | 17 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.