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Freeze Warning 1, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 2, 202210 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this freeze warning at May 2, 2022, 12:59 PM CDT for 10 counties in Kansas. It took effect at May 3, 2022, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 7 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
May 2, 2022, 12:59 PM CDT (17:59 UTC)
In effect from
May 3, 2022, 1:00 AM CDT
Expired
May 3, 2022, 8:00 AM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS

Counties Finney County, KS, Grant County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Scott County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Trego County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:00 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, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 101 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2022-05-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2022-05-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 474 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
743 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
474 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
651 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.2

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this freeze 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 freeze warning went out at May 2, 11:44 AM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 2, 11:44 AM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, May 2, 4:59 AM CDT, 8 hours before
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
459 AM CDT Mon May 2 2022

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-031000-
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-
459 AM CDT Mon May 2 2022 /359 AM MDT Mon May 2 2022/

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of central Kansas,
south central Kansas, southwest Kansas, and west central Kansas.

.DAY ONE...Today and Tonight

Strong to severe thunderstorms are likely to develop as early as
midday ahead of a compact, intense low pressure system. The
greatest severe weather risk will be very large hail to golf ball
size and an isolated tornado or two. The greatest tornado risk
is expected to be along and east of a Jetmore to Dodge City line,
out to central Kansas roughly along the Highway 50, Highway 54,
and Highway 56 corridors, including the Larned, Kinsley,
Greensburg, Pratt, and Stafford areas.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday

Another significant storm system will move out across the Central
Plains Wednesday and Thursday, however much of southwest Kansas is
likely to remain on the cooler side of this system, such that the
severe weather risk will likely be very limited.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Storm spotters are likely to be needed beginning around midday or
early this afternoon in the Dodge City, Jetmore, Kinsley, Larned,
Greensburg, Pratt, Stafford, and surrounding areas of southwest
into central Kansas.

Umscheid

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 1, 7:10 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCMorton50 min
May 1, 7:58 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCStevens47 min
May 1, 8:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCHamilton45 min
May 1, 8:18 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCHamilton42 min
May 1, 8:21 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCMorton39 min
May 1, 9:16 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCKearny44 min
May 1, 9:54 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCFinney51 min
May 1, 10:38 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCFinney52 min
May 1, 11:26 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCGray, Hodgeman49 min
May 2, 12:13 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCEdwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Pawnee32 min
May 2, 4:41 AM CDTFreeze WatchDDCFinney, Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Lane, Morton and 4 more8 hr
May 2, 1:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCFord31 min
May 2, 2:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCFord31 min
May 2, 2:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Ford49 min
May 2, 2:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord, Kiowa48 min
May 2, 3:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatDDCClark, Comanche, Ford, Kiowa42 min
May 2, 3:34 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCComanche26 min
May 2, 3:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatDDCBarber, Comanche, Kiowa, Pratt48 min
May 2, 3:43 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCBarber, Kiowa, Pratt32 min
May 2, 3:56 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCComanche34 min
May 2, 3:59 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCBarber31 min
May 2, 4:28 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCBarber, Pratt32 min
May 2, 4:58 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCBarber32 min

Nearby

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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.