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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Jul 26, 2008, 4:40 PM CDT for Rush County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 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
- Jul 26, 2008, 4:40 PM CDT (21:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 2008, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
County Rush County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1306 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -138 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1520 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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 Jul 26, 3:44 PM CDT, 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 3:44 PM CDT, 56 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1230 PM CDT SAT JUL 26 2008 KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-271000- 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- 1230 PM CDT SAT JUL 26 2008 /1135 AM MDT SAT JUL 26 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS...SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...SOUTHWEST KANSAS AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY PRIMARILY NORTH OF A LINE FROM JOHNSON TO DODGE CITY TO PRATT...BUT THESE ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. GUSTY WINDS UP TO 50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY INTO WEDNESDAY BUT THESE ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. && FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 26, 3:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
326 PM CDT SAT JUL 26 2008
KSZ031-262100-
ELLIS-
326 PM CDT SAT JUL 26 2008
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR ELLIS COUNTY...
AT 322 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR VICTORIA...MOVING EAST AT 21 MPH.
NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.
RESIDENTS IN EASTERN ELLIS COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITIES OF VICTORIA
AND WALKER...SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR
POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD
SEVERE WEATHER THREATEN.
LAT...LON 3893 9902 3873 9902 3872 9903 3876 9927
3893 9925
TIME...MOT...LOC 2026Z 275DEG 18KT 3884 9913
RITTERLINGSpecial weather statement, Jul 26, 3:50 PM CDT, 50 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 10:11 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DDC | Stafford | 6 hr |
| Jul 26, 3:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ellis | 34 min |
| Jul 26, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 24 min |
| Jul 26, 3:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ellis | 40 min |
| Jul 26, 4:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ellis | 29 min |
| Jul 26, 5:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Pawnee, Stafford | 77 min |
| Jul 26, 6:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Pratt | 73 min |
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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.