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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

March 30, 2006Trego County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Mar 30, 2006, 3:33 AM CST for Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 42 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 30, 2006, 3:33 AM CST (09:33 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2006, 4:15 AM CST
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS

County Trego County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 123 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 230 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1878 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 223 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 367 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Mar 30, 3:00 AM CST, 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 30, 3:00 AM CST, 33 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
300 AM CST THU MAR 30 2006

.DISCUSSION...

DAYS 1-2...

THE 00Z UA DATA PROVIDED NO SURPRISES. THUS, NO MAJOR CHANGES WERE
MADE TO THE PREVIOUS FORECAST. UPPER SYSTEM OVER SE NV WILL RAPIDLY
EJECT INTO THE PLAINS TODAY. THE ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT STRETCHED
FROM CENTRAL WY INTO WESTERN NM AT 00Z AND THIS FRONT WILL
RAPIDLY PROGRESS ACROSS THE HIGH PLAINS LATER THIS MORNING. THIS
AIRMASS WILL OF COURSE MODIFY ON ITS JOURNEY DOWNSLOPE. MAXES TODAY
WILL BE THE WARMEST IN THE SE AND COLDEST NEAR THE COLORADO BORDER.
THE BEST CHANCE FOR STORMS WILL BE FROM DDC EASTWARD AS 700MB
COOLING REACHES THE DEEP MOISTURE AND ERODES THE CAPPING INVERSION.
THE NAM IS SLOWER TO BREAK OUT STORMS AND FURTHER EAST COMPARED TO THE
RUC AND GFS. STORMS WILL PROBABLY FIRE ABOUT 15Z OR 16Z AROUND DODGE
AND THEN PROGRESS NE. SOME OF THESE COULD BE SEVERE. AS IS TYPICAL
WITH INTENSE AND PROGRESSIVE SHORTWAVE TROUGHS, THE SFC WINDS WILL
BE MUCH STRONGER THAN THE NAM SUGGESTS. THE RUC HAS UP TO 35 KT SFC
WINDS NEAR DODGE. A WIND ADVISORY WILL BE NEEDED FOR ALL BUT THE FAR
NW PART OF THE FCST AREA.

FINCH

DAYS 3-7...

THE GFS AND ECMWF MODELS CONTINUE TO BE IN DECENT AGREEMENT THROUGH
THIS WEEKEND WITH RESPECT TO THE SHORTWAVE TROUGH MOVING EAST ACROSS
THE CONUS.  LATER IN THE WEEK, THE MODELS DIVERGE A BIT ON THE
TIMING AND DETAILS OF THE MIDWEEK SYSTEM ALTHOUGH THEY APPEAR TO BE
TRENDING TOWARD A MORE SOUTHWARD TRACK OF THE SYSTEM AS ADVERTISED
BY THE GFS.  THE GFS IS SHOWING A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF LOW LEVEL
RH OVER WESTERN KANSAS ON TUESDAY INTO TUESDAY NIGHT. WITH WEAK LIFT
OVER THE REGION DURING THE DAY, COULD BE SOME PRECIPITATION IN THE
FORM OF DRIZZLE BEFORE MORE SIGNIFICANT PRECIP CHANCES DEVELOP
TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY AS THE MAIN WAVE APPROACHES.  FOR NOW
WILL LEAVE THE EXTENDED GRIDS AS IS WITH ONLY SOME MINOR ADJUSTMENTS.

02

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
DDC  71  37  71  42 /  30   0   0   0
GCK  64  34  68  40 /  20   0   0   0
EHA  67  37  70  41 /  20   0   0   0
LBL  71  36  71  42 /  10   0   0   0
HYS  73  38  68  40 /  30   0   0   0
P28  76  41  73  44 /  60   0   0   0

&&

.DDC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
WIND ADVISORY FROM 9 AM THIS MORNING TO 4 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON
FOR KSZ030-KSZ031-KSZ045-KSZ046-KSZ063-KSZ064-KSZ065-KSZ066-
KSZ074-KSZ075-KSZ076-KSZ077-KSZ078-KSZ079-KSZ080-KSZ081-KSZ084-
KSZ085-KSZ086-KSZ087-KSZ088-KSZ089-KSZ090.

FN24/02

Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 29, 8:23 PM CST, 7 hours 10 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 30, 3:33 AM CST, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 30, 2:35 AM CST	Wind Advisory	DDC	Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 21 more	14 hr
Mar 30, 11:26 AM CST	High Wind Warning	DDC	Grant, Haskell, Morton, Seward, Stanton, Stevens	2 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.