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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 9, 2007Ford County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Jun 9, 2007, 10:10 PM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 9, 2007, 10:10 PM CDT (03:10 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 2007, 11:15 PM CDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS

County Ford County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 4 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 9, 10:47 PM CDTTSTM WND GST 65Dodge City, KS
Jun 9, 10:47 PM CDTTSTM WND GST 701 Nw Dodge City, KS

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 6 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2007-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2441 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2007-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 129 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2441 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-112 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1460 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
129 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
136 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
3.7

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The text

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

000 
WWUS83 KDDC 100312
SPSDDC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1010 PM CDT SAT JUN 9 2007

KSZ078-100415-
FORD-
1010 PM CDT SAT JUN 9 2007

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR FORD COUNTY...

AT 1008 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR HOWELL...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

SMALL HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR ENSIGN AND DODGE CITY BY 1040 PM AND FORD 
AND SPEARVILLE BY 11 PM.

RESIDENTS IN FORD COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITIES OF HOWELL...DODGE
CITY AND FORD...SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN
FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION
SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER THREATEN.

LAT...LON 3789 10020 3749 10018 3750 9959 3788 9959

$$

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 7:06 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCStanton39 min
Jun 9, 7:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCKearny44 min
Jun 9, 7:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Kearny49 min
Jun 9, 8:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant, Stanton44 min
Jun 9, 8:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCMorton, Stevens45 min
Jun 9, 8:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant51 min
Jun 9, 9:11 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCHaskell, Seward, Stevens49 min
Jun 9, 9:58 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCSeward47 min
Jun 9, 10:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord50 min
Jun 9, 10:45 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCSeward45 min
Jun 9, 11:13 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCClark, Kiowa62 min
Jun 10, 1:18 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCPratt42 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.