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Frost Advisory 1, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this frost advisory at Apr 17, 2026, 10:22 AM CDT for Comanche County, Kiowa County, Stafford County, Kansas. It took effect at Apr 18, 2026, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 17, 2026, 10:22 AM CDT (15:22 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 18, 2026, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 18, 2026, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Comanche County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Stafford County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:23 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
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 304 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
- 1174 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 745 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 310 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 330 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 10.2
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this frost 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 frost advisory went out at Apr 17, 5:44 AM CDT, 4 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 17, 5:44 AM CDT, 4 hours 38 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 17, 10:22 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | DDC | Clark, Edwards, Ellis, Finney, Ford, Grant and 16 more | 23 hr |
Nearby
Frost Advisories in Kansas, 2026Every frost advisory in 2026
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.