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Dust Storm Warning 1, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 19, 202318 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this dust storm warning at Apr 19, 2023, 11:51 PM CDT for 18 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 114 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 19, 2023, 11:51 PM CDT (04:51 UTC)
Expired
Apr 20, 2023, 1:45 AM CDT
In force
114 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards 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, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:50 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 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 56 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 00:00Z on 2023-04-20Temperature 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 00:00Z on 2023-04-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 66 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
3876 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
201 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this dust storm 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 dust storm warning went out at Apr 19, 7:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 7:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 51 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 19, 5:32 AM CDT, 18 hours 19 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
532 AM CDT Wed Apr 19 2023

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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-
532 AM CDT Wed Apr 19 2023 /432 AM MDT Wed Apr 19 2023/

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

.DAY ONE...Today and Tonight

Critical fire weather conditions will develop south of a polar
front this afternoon, mainly south of a Johnson to Montezuma to
Medicine Lodge line. In this region, relative humidity will fall
to 10 percent or less with increasing southwest wind to 20 to 30
mph from late this afternoon through early this evening.

Later tonight, high winds are forecast to develop behind an
intense cold front. Northwest winds are expected to range from 30
to 40 mph sustained with gusts at or close to 60 mph at times. A
High Wind Watch is in effect for much of southwest Kansas and all
of west central Kansas.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday

Near critical to possibly critical fire weather conditions will
develop once again on Thursday as wind direction becomes west-
northwest at speeds of 20 to 30 mph. An extremely dry airmass will
move in from Colorado resulting in afternoon relative humidity 15
to 20 percent, if not lower.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is not expected to be needed at this time as
primary severe weather risk will be east and northeast of the
Dodge City forecast area.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 20, 2:00 AM CDTRed Flag WarningDDCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 21 more19 hr
Apr 20, 2:16 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCStafford44 min
Apr 20, 2:25 AM CDTFire Weather WatchDDCEllis, Trego22 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.