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High Wind Watch 6, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 19, 202316 counties in Kansas

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.

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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

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2023-04-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 304 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2023-04-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 255 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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

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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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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 18, 8:09 PM CDTRed Flag WarningDDCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Grant, Haskell, Meade and 4 more25 hr
Apr 19, 11:00 AM CDTHigh Wind WarningDDCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 21 more19 hr
Apr 19, 6:47 PM CDTBlowing Dust AdvisoryDDCClark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Grant and 14 more8 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.