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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 21, 2011Hamilton County, Stanton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Jul 21, 2011, 7:13 PM MDT for Hamilton County, Stanton County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 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
Jul 21, 2011, 7:13 PM MDT (01:13 UTC)
Expired
Jul 21, 2011, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS

Counties Hamilton County, KS, Stanton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 21, 7:17 PM MDTTSTM WND GST 60Johnson City, KS
Jul 21, 7:35 PM MDTTSTM WND GST 606 Nne Johnson 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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 161 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 2011-07-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 7 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 2011-07-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -34 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
7 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-90 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3405 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-1 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.

770 
WWUS83 KDDC 220113
SPSDDC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
813 PM CDT THU JUL 21 2011

KSZ061-074-084-220200-
HAMILTON-MORTON-STANTON-
713 PM MDT THU JUL 21 2011

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HAMILTON...NORTHERN MORTON AND
STANTON COUNTIES...

AT 708 PM MDT/808 PM CDT/...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM SYRACUSE
TO 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MANTER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.



LAT...LON 3825 10155 3741 10155 3714 10200 3825 10198
TIME...MOT...LOC 0113Z 247DEG 31KT 3797 10175 3746 10175

$$

RUSSELL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 21, 6:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane, Ness36 min
Jul 21, 7:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant, Hamilton, Kearny, Morton, Stanton, Stevens52 min
Jul 21, 7:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Grant, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny, Stevens51 min
Jul 21, 8:43 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCFinney, Gray47 min
Jul 22, 3:50 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCEdwards55 min
Jul 22, 3:52 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCRush53 min
Jul 22, 5:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber, Comanche21 min
Jul 22, 5:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Rush25 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.