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Dense Fog Advisory 8, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this dense fog advisory at Jun 8, 2021, 5:40 AM CDT for 5 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 2021, 5:40 AM CDT (10:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2021, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Pratt County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:40 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 00:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 329 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
- 1124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -114 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2448 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this dense fog 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 dense fog advisory went out at Jun 7, 6:07 PM CDT, 11 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 6:07 PM CDT, 11 hours 33 minutes before
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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.