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Wind Chill Advisory 5, NWS Dodge City, KS

February 21, 202217 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this wind chill advisory at Feb 21, 2022, 4:41 AM CST for 17 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Feb 22, 2022, 2:00 AM CST. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 21, 2022, 4:41 AM CST (10:41 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 22, 2022, 2:00 AM CST
Expired: Feb 22, 2022, 11:00 AM CST
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS

Counties 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, Lane County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Trego County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:40 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 324 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: 3764 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 128 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 wind chill advisory 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 wind chill advisory went out at Feb 20, 4:23 PM CST, 12 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 20, 4:23 PM CST, 12 hours 18 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 20, 4:46 AM CST, 23 hours 55 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
446 AM CST Sun Feb 20 2022

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-211100-
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-
446 AM CST Sun Feb 20 2022 /346 AM MST Sun Feb 20 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

No hazardous weather is expected at this time.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday

Critical fire weather conditions are forecast to develop out ahead
of a sharp cold front Monday afternoon. Relative humidity is
forecast to drop to around 10 to 15 percent with west-southwest
winds of 20 to 30 mph in the afternoon across much of southwest
Kansas.

A bitterly cold, arctic airmass will overspread the region Monday
Night. This airmass will remain in place through the remainder of
the workweek. Wednesday morning is of greatest concern regarding
wind chills, as the combined north wind and arctic temperature
will result in dangerous wind chills as low as -20 degrees.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation will not be needed.

Umscheid

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 21, 2:57 PM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	DDC	Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 21 more	43 hr

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.