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Dust Storm Warning 3, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this dust storm warning at Jan 15, 2021, 12:37 PM CST for 5 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 2 hr. 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, 12:37 PM CST (18:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 15, 2021, 2:45 PM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Grant County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Morton County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 168 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.
479
WWUS53 KDDC 151844
DSWDDC
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Dust Storm Warning
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
1237 PM CST Fri Jan 15 2021
KSC067-075-129-187-189-152045-
/O.NEW.KDDC.DS.W.0003.210115T1837Z-210115T2045Z/
Morton KS-Hamilton KS-Grant KS-Stanton KS-Stevens KS-
1237 PM CST Fri Jan 15 2021
The National Weather Service in Dodge City has issued a
* Dust Storm Warning for...
Morton County in southwestern Kansas...
Hamilton County in southwestern Kansas...
Western Grant County in southwestern Kansas...
Stanton County in southwestern Kansas...
Western Stevens County in southwestern Kansas...
* Until 245 PM CST/145 PM MST/.
* At 1237 PM CST/1137 AM MST/, satellite imagery indicated widespread
blowing dust continued across far southwest Kansas, particularly
near the Colorado border.
HAZARD...Less than a quarter mile visibility with damaging wind in
excess of 60 mph.
SOURCE...Law enforcement.
IMPACT...Dangerous life-threatening travel.
East-west crosswind highways are particularly dangerous, including
Highway 50, Highway 160, and Highway 56.
This new warning extends the previous Dust Storm Warning.
Locations impacted include...
Hugoton, Elkhart, Syracuse, Johnson City, Rolla, Manter, Coolidge,
Richfield, Wilburton, The Saunders Elevator, Big Bow and Feterita.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Dust storms lead to very dangerous driving conditions with visibility
reduced to near zero around open agriculture areas.
&&
LAT...LON 3826 10204 3826 10169 3700 10126 3699 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 1837Z 240DEG 49KT 3759 10191
$$
UMSCHEIDThe 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, 11:02 AM CST | Dust Storm Warning | DDC | Grant, Kearny, Stevens | 118 min |
| 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.