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High Wind Watch 6, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this high wind watch at Apr 19, 2023, 4:23 AM CDT for 16 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Apr 19, 2023, 9:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 19, 2023, 4:23 AM CDT (09:23 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 19, 2023, 9:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2023, 11:00 AM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties 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, Stanton County, KS, Trego County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:21 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 333 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 304 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -167 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2854 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 255 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 260 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Apr 19, 3:58 AM CDT, 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 3:58 AM CDT, 25 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 8:09 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Grant, Haskell, Meade and 4 more | 25 hr |
| Apr 19, 11:00 AM CDT | High Wind Warning | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 21 more | 19 hr |
| Apr 19, 6:47 PM CDT | Blowing Dust Advisory | DDC | Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Grant and 14 more | 8 hr |
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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.