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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 10, 2006Grant County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 10, 2006, 3:15 PM CDT for Grant County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 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: Aug 10, 2006, 3:15 PM CDT (20:15 UTC)
Expired: Aug 10, 2006, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS

County Grant County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 145 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: 227 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -299 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2288 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -8 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Aug 10, 3:25 AM CDT, 11 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 3:25 AM CDT, 11 hours 50 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 10, 3:45 AM CDT, 11 hours 30 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
345 AM CDT THU AUG 10 2006

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-111030-
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-
345 AM CDT THU AUG 10 2006 /245 AM MDT THU AUG 10 2006/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL
KANSAS...SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...SOUTHWEST KANSAS AND WEST CENTRAL
KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AFTER 1 PM ALONG AND NORTHWEST OF A LINE
FROM ELKHART TO GARDEN CITY TO HAYS. THE STORMS SHOULD SPREAD EAST
DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING INTO CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL
KANSAS. VERY ISOLATED WIND GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH
THESE STORMS...ALONG WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED SINCE ISOLATED HIGH WIND GUSTS
ARE DIFFICULT TO SPOT.

FINCH

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 10, 3:15 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
315 PM CDT THU AUG 10 2006

KSZ074-075-102100-
GRANT-STANTON-
315 PM CDT THU AUG 10 2006

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWEST GRANT AND SOUTHEAST
STANTON COUNTIES...

AT 306 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT
THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING 10 MILES SOUTH OF BIG
BOW...MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS UP TO AROUND 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH
THESE STORMS.

RESIDENTS IN SOUTHEASTERN STANTON AND SOUTHWESTERN GRANT COUNTIES...
SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE
WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE
WEATHER THREATEN.

LAT...LON 3749 10168 3739 10166 3740 10116 3757 10133

18

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 10, 3:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Stanton, Stevens	49 min
Aug 10, 3:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Comanche, Kiowa	40 min
Aug 10, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt	51 min
Aug 10, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward	43 min
Aug 10, 5:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Barber	45 min

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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.