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Dust Storm Warning 2, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this dust storm warning at Jan 15, 2021, 11:02 AM CST for Grant County, Kearny County, Stevens County, Kansas. It was in force for 118 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 15, 2021, 11:02 AM CST (17:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 15, 2021, 1:00 PM CST
- In force
- 118 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Grant County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:07 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 2061 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 243 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 199 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
747
WWUS53 KDDC 151703
DSWDDC
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Dust Storm Warning
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
1102 AM CST Fri Jan 15 2021
KSC067-093-189-151900-
/O.NEW.KDDC.DS.W.0002.210115T1702Z-210115T1900Z/
Kearny KS-Grant KS-Stevens KS-
1102 AM CST Fri Jan 15 2021
The National Weather Service in Dodge City has issued a
* Dust Storm Warning for...
Kearny County in southwestern Kansas...
Grant County in southwestern Kansas...
Stevens County in southwestern Kansas...
* Until 100 PM CST.
* At 1102 AM CST, numerous dust channels were located in these
counties.
HAZARD...Less than a quarter mile visibility with damaging wind in
excess of 60 mph.
SOURCE...Satellite.
IMPACT...Dangerous life-threatening travel.
Locations impacted include...
Ulysses, Hugoton, Lakin, Deerfield, Moscow, Ryus, Cave, Hickok, Woods
and Feterita.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Dust storms lead to dangerous driving conditions with visibility
reduced to near zero. If driving, avoid dust storms if possible. If
caught in one, pull off the road, turn off your lights and keep your
foot off the brake.
&&
LAT...LON 3700 10155 3739 10156 3739 10153 3826 10154
3826 10110 3700 10107
TIME...MOT...LOC 1702Z 342DEG 48KT 3803 10142
$$
HOVORKAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 15, 10:43 AM CST | Dust Storm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Morton, Stanton | 2 hr |
| Jan 15, 12:37 PM CST | Dust Storm Warning | DDC | Grant, Hamilton, Morton, Stanton, Stevens | 2 hr |
| Jan 15, 2:41 PM CST | Dust Storm Advisory | DDC | Grant, Hamilton, Morton, Stanton, Stevens | 112 min |
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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.