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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 6, 2011Kearny County, Kansas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2011-08-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 236 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 2011-08-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 26 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 5, 9:03 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCStanton42 min
Aug 5, 10:34 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCMeade56 min
Aug 5, 10:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Meade43 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.