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Blowing Dust Warning 1, NWS Dodge City, KS

December 2, 202224 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this blowing dust warning at Dec 2, 2022, 2:18 PM CST for 24 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 2, 2022, 2:18 PM CST (20:18 UTC)
Expired: Dec 2, 2022, 7:02 PM CST
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS

All 24 counties

Clark County, KS, Comanche 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, Kiowa 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), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 43 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3394 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this blowing dust warning 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 blowing dust warning went out at Dec 1, 4:38 PM CST, 21 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 1, 4:38 PM CST, 21 hours 40 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 2, 3:42 AM CST	High Wind Warning	DDC	Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 21 more	16 hr
Dec 2, 4:21 PM CST	High Wind Warning	DDC	Barber, Pratt, Stafford	4 hr

Nearby

Blowing Dust Warnings in Kansas, 2022 Every blowing dust warning in 2022

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.