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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2011, 6:48 PM CDT for Kearny County, Kansas. It was in force for 42 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
- Aug 6, 2011, 6:48 PM CDT (23:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2011, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
County Kearny County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 236 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -239 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2017 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
160 WWUS83 KDDC 062348 SPSDDC SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 648 PM CDT SAT AUG 6 2011 KSZ061-062-070030- HAMILTON-KEARNY- 648 PM CDT SAT AUG 6 2011 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL KEARNY AND NORTHEASTERN HAMILTON COUNTIES... AT 644 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF SYRACUSE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. SMALL HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LAT...LON 3820 10111 3787 10122 3807 10173 3824 10166 TIME...MOT...LOC 2348Z 288DEG 25KT 3812 10157 $$ GERARD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 9:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Stanton | 42 min |
| Aug 5, 10:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Meade | 56 min |
| Aug 5, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 43 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.