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Fire Weather Watch 32, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 14, 20119 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this fire weather watch at Jun 14, 2011, 3:29 PM CDT for 9 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jun 16, 2011, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 14, 2011, 3:29 PM CDT (20:29 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 16, 2011, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired
Jun 15, 2011, 3:30 PM CDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS

Counties Finney County, KS, Grant County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 126 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 12:00Z on 2011-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1159 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2011-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -59 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
1159 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-436 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
588 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this fire weather watch 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 fire weather watch went out at Jun 14, 4:00 AM CDT, 11 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 4:00 AM CDT, 11 hours 29 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 14, 10:47 AM CDT, 4 hours 42 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1047 AM CDT TUE JUN 14 2011

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-151600-
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-
1047 AM CDT TUE JUN 14 2011 /947 AM MDT TUE JUN 14 2011/

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP EARLY THIS
AFTERNOON ACROSS EAST-CENTRAL COLORADO AHEAD OF A WEAK UPPER LEVEL
DISTURBANCE. THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE EAST AND REACH FAR
WEST-CENTRAL OR SOUTHWEST KANSAS BY LATE AFTERNOON. WITH AN
INCREASE IN MOISTURE BEHIND THE FRONT AND SUNSHINE OCCURRING AS
WELL...ATMOSPHERIC DESTABILIZATION WILL OCCUR AND WILL SUPPORT AN
ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OR TWO BY LATE IN THE AFTERNOON AND
EARLY THIS EVENING. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE GENERALLY WEST OF A
LINE FROM HUGOTON TO GARDEN CITY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

THERE IS SLIGHT CHANCE FOR ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS EACH LATE
AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM THURSDAY INTO MONDAY, EAST OF LINE FROM
WAKEENEY TO DODGE CITY TO ASHLAND. LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS
WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH A FEW ISOLATED STORMS DURING THIS PERIOD.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

STORM SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS
EVENING WEST ACROSS FAR WEST-CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST KANSAS.

&&

FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 3:49 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCScott41 min
Jun 14, 3:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Kearny, Lane, Scott50 min
Jun 14, 4:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Gray, Hodgeman, Lane, Ness44 min
Jun 14, 4:23 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCGray37 min
Jun 14, 4:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Finney, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman, Ness and 2 more61 min
Jun 14, 5:40 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCEdwards, Kiowa, Pawnee50 min
Jun 14, 6:41 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCStafford49 min

Nearby

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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.