Northeast winds turned to southwesterly as relatively warm air overrode a colder surface airmass, promoting widespread dense fog. Dense fog advisories went into place on the early evening of the 5th and persisted until early-morning on the 6th.
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The episode as NWS DDC wrote it up.
Northeast winds turned to southwesterly as relatively warm air overrode a colder surface airmass, promoting widespread dense fog. Dense fog advisories went into place on the early evening of the 5th and persisted until early-morning on the 6th. Visibility in fog dropped to one quarter mile at Dodge City as early as 6 pm on the 5th, as dense fog expanded west toward the highway 23 and 83 corridors along and south of highway 400 during the evening.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
4 dense fog. Local standard time, as filed.
One quarter of a mile visibility in dense fog waws reported by the ASOS at the Dodge City Airport.
One quarter of a mile at the Sublette airport.
One quarter of a mile was reported at the Liberal Airport.
Visibility was reported as one quarter of a mile at the Pratt airport.
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