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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 7, 2011Trego County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2011, 8:22 AM CDT for Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 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 7, 2011, 8:22 AM CDT (13:22 UTC)
Expired: Aug 7, 2011, 9:00 AM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS

County Trego County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 123 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 729 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -227 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2262 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 29 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.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Aug 7, 3:27 AM CDT, 4 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 3:27 AM CDT, 4 hours 55 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 7, 4:17 AM CDT, 4 hours 5 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
417 AM CDT SUN AUG 7 2011

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-081000-
TREGO-ELLIS-SCOTT-LANE-NESS-RUSH-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-HODGEMAN-
PAWNEE-STAFFORD-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA-
PRATT-MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK-COMANCHE-BARBER-
417 AM CDT SUN AUG 7 2011 /317 AM MDT SUN AUG 7 2011/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...SOUTH
CENTRAL...SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM CDT
THIS EVENING FOR STAFFORD...EDWARDS...KIOWA...PRATT...COMANCHE...
AND BARBER COUNTIES.

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TONIGHT ACROSS
NORTHERN PORTIONS OF OUR FORECAST AREA. THE STRONGEST STORMS MAY
BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS...SMALL HAIL...DESTRUCTIVE
WINDS...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE EARLY
WEDNESDAY MORNING THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. SOME OF THESE STORMS
MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS BEING THE MAIN
CONCERN. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THURSDAY NIGHT
AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FRIDAY NIGHT.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT.

&&

FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 7, 8:22 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 7, 4:00 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	DDC	Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt and 1 more	16 hr
Aug 7, 4:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Grant, Stevens	45 min
Aug 7, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant	38 min
Aug 7, 5:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Haskell, Stevens	42 min
Aug 7, 5:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Finney	44 min
Aug 7, 5:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray, Haskell	39 min
Aug 7, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Ford, Gray, Meade	46 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Kansas, 2011 Every special weather statement in 2011

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.