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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 29, 2011Pawnee County, Kansas

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.

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What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 29, 6:35 PM CDTHAIL 0.889 S Alexander, KS
May 29, 6:35 PM CDTNON-TSTM WND DMG9 S Alexander, KSA 5 INCH DIAMETER TREE LIMB WAS BLOWN DOWN.
May 29, 6:50 PM CDTHAIL 0.881 E Alexander, KS
May 29, 6:50 PM CDTHAIL 12 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2011-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 90 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 12:00Z on 2011-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 269 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 29, 7:10 AM CDTDense Fog AdvisoryDDCClark, Comanche, Finney, Ford, Gray, Haskell and 2 more110 min
May 29, 5:48 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCEdwards42 min
May 29, 6:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCNess, Pawnee, Rush46 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.