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Blowing Dust Advisory 2, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 17, 202420 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this blowing dust advisory at Jun 17, 2024, 5:28 PM CDT for 20 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 17, 2024, 5:28 PM CDT (22:28 UTC)
Expired
Jun 17, 2024, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
4 hr
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, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Trego County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:26 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 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 353 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 12:00Z on 2024-06-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 305 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 12:00Z on 2024-06-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 471 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
305 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-576 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
801 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
471 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
624 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
15.5

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this blowing dust 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 blowing dust advisory went out at Jun 17, 2:02 PM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 2:02 PM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 17, 3:22 AM CDT, 14 hours 6 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
322 AM CDT Mon Jun 17 2024

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-180830-
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-
322 AM CDT Mon Jun 17 2024 /222 AM MDT Mon Jun 17 2024/

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

.DAY ONE...Today and Tonight

Strong surface winds today and tonight will be sustained out of
the south at 25-35 mph with gusts 50 mph or greater.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday

Tuesday a cold front will stall roughly along a Syracuse to Hays
line and storms will develop in the afternoon and continue through
the evening. These storms could contain large hail, damaging
winds, and heavy rainfall that could lead to localized flash
flooding.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation won't be needed today.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 17, 3:29 AM CDTHigh Wind WatchDDCHamilton, Kearny, Scott11 hr

Nearby

Blowing Dust Advisories in Kansas, 2024Every blowing dust advisory in 2024

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.