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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at May 29, 2011, 6:21 PM CDT for Pawnee County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 min. 4 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
- May 29, 2011, 6:21 PM CDT (23:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2011, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
County Pawnee County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:21 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 6:35 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 9 S Alexander, KS | |
| May 29, 6:35 PM CDT | NON-TSTM WND DMG | 9 S Alexander, KS | A 5 INCH DIAMETER TREE LIMB WAS BLOWN DOWN. |
| May 29, 6:50 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 1 E Alexander, KS | |
| May 29, 6:50 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 2 E Alexander, 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 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 76 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
- 90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -999 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1225 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 269 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 278 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
124 WWUS83 KDDC 292321 SPSDDC SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 621 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 2011 KSZ045-046-064-065-079-300000- EDWARDS-HODGEMAN-NESS-PAWNEE-RUSH- 621 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 2011 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EASTERN NESS...NORTHEASTERN HODGEMAN...NORTHERN EDWARDS...SOUTHERN RUSH AND WESTERN PAWNEE COUNTIES... AT 617 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF HANSTON TO 9 MILES NORTH OF KINSLEY...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. LAT...LON 3868 9981 3843 9905 3801 9929 3818 9982 TIME...MOT...LOC 2320Z 202DEG 36KT 3821 9977 3808 9943 $$ RUSSELL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 7:10 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | DDC | Clark, Comanche, Finney, Ford, Gray, Haskell and 2 more | 110 min |
| May 29, 5:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Edwards | 42 min |
| May 29, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness, Pawnee, Rush | 46 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.