Live National Weather Service watches and warnings for Ford County, from the forecast office here in town — plus the wind right now. In English and Spanish.
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Live watches and warnings for Ford County, straight from the National Weather Service — whose Dodge City forecast office sits right here in town, watching this sky for more than 30 counties. Below the warnings: the wind right now at the town center. Avisos y alertas en vivo para el condado de Ford, directamente del Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (NWS) — cuya oficina de pronósticos de Dodge City está aquí mismo, en la ciudad, vigilando este cielo para más de 30 condados. Debajo de las alertas: el viento en este momento en el centro de la ciudad.
No weather alerts for Ford County right now.
The National Weather Service has no active alerts for Ford County, as of Sat 11 July at 16:13.
A gentle breeze (about 17 km/h, gusts to 19), out of the east.
Strongest gusts forecast over the next 24 hours: about 26 km/h. Wind words follow the Beaufort scale. This is a weather model’s forecast for the hour, not a measurement — exposed ground above town will see more.
Official channels / Canales oficiales
Spring is siren season on the High Plains. The city's outdoor warning sirens sound for tornado warnings, and Ford County emergency management runs the storm spotters and shelter guidance. The NWS office here has seen it all — its own list of historic weather events is filled with tornado outbreaks, ice storms and blizzards, including the 2007 EF5 that destroyed Greensburg, 40 miles east. La primavera es temporada de sirenas en las Altas Llanuras. Las sirenas exteriores de la ciudad suenan cuando hay alerta de tornado (tornado warning), y el manejo de emergencias del condado de Ford coordina a los observadores de tormentas y la orientación sobre refugios. La oficina del NWS aquí lo ha visto todo — su propia lista de eventos históricos está llena de brotes de tornados, tormentas de hielo y ventiscas, incluido el EF5 de 2007 que destruyó Greensburg, a 40 millas al este.
Even without heavy snowfall, hard wind over open country whips fallen snow into ground blizzards with near-zero visibility. US-50, US-283 and US-400 close in these conditions and travelers get stranded in town. If a winter storm warning is up, check KanDrive before starting any highway drive. Aun sin una gran nevada, el viento fuerte sobre el campo abierto levanta la nieve caída y crea ventiscas de superficie con visibilidad casi nula. Las carreteras US-50, US-283 y US-400 se cierran en estas condiciones y los viajeros quedan varados en la ciudad. Si hay aviso de tormenta invernal, consulte KanDrive antes de salir a la carretera.
Dodge City is regularly ranked the windiest city in America — the average wind is about 13.9 mph, and a calm day is the exception. The wind direction is its own kind of daily news: a south or east wind carries the feedlot smell into town. Locals call it the smell of money. Dodge City aparece con regularidad como la ciudad con más viento de Estados Unidos — el viento promedio es de unas 13.9 mph, y un día de calma es la excepción. La dirección del viento es noticia diaria por sí sola: el viento del sur o del este trae el olor de los corrales de engorde a la ciudad. Aquí le dicen el olor del dinero.
Alert data: U.S. National Weather Service, source weather.gov — a public-domain product of the U.S. federal government. Alerts are shown as issued; this page reads the active alerts the NWS has posted for Ford County. Wind forecast: Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0). This page is not an alert service — sign up to the official channels above.