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High Wind Watch 1, NWS Dodge City, KS

February 7, 2023Hamilton County, Morton County, Stanton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this high wind watch at Feb 7, 2023, 2:23 PM MST for Hamilton County, Morton County, Stanton County, Kansas. It took effect at Feb 9, 2023, 5:00 AM MST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 7, 2023, 2:23 PM MST (21:23 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 9, 2023, 5:00 AM MST
Expired
Feb 8, 2023, 12:09 PM MST
In force
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS

Counties Hamilton County, KS, Morton County, KS, Stanton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 168 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 2023-02-07Temperature 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 2023-02-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -232 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
1678 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
80 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-232 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-85 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.