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Freeze Warning 4, NWS Dodge City, KS

October 18, 2022Barber County, Pratt County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this freeze warning at Oct 18, 2022, 1:11 PM CDT for Barber County, Pratt County, Kansas. It took effect at Oct 19, 2022, 2:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

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The facts

Issued
Oct 18, 2022, 1:11 PM CDT (18:11 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 19, 2022, 2:00 AM CDT
Expired
Oct 19, 2022, 9:00 AM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS

Counties Barber County, KS, Pratt County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 111 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 2022-10-18Temperature 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 2022-10-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 126 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2026 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
126 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
177 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.