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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

February 2, 2012Barber County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Feb 2, 2012, 10:21 PM CST for Barber County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 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
Feb 2, 2012, 10:21 PM CST (04:21 UTC)
Expired
Feb 2, 2012, 11:00 PM CST
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS

County Barber County, KS

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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
Feb 2, 10:45 PM CSTHAIL 0.885 Ne Hardtner, KS
Feb 2, 10:56 PM CSTHAIL 0.753 S Sharon, KSPEA TO PENNY-SIZED HAIL COVERED THE GROUND.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 118 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, Lamont, OK at 00:00Z on 2012-02-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lamont, OK at 00:00Z on 2012-02-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 198 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1275 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
198 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
349 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.

804 
WWUS83 KDDC 030421
SPSDDC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1021 PM CST THU FEB 2 2012

KSZ081-090-030500-
BARBER-PRATT-
1021 PM CST THU FEB 2 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EASTERN BARBER AND SOUTHEASTERN
PRATT COUNTIES...

AT 1017 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HARDTNER...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 45 MPH.

LAT...LON 3699 9883 3757 9848 3755 9845 3739 9846
      3738 9834 3700 9834
TIME...MOT...LOC 0421Z 221DEG 37KT 3698 9869

$$

WAH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 2, 10:41 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber, Pratt35 min
Feb 2, 11:53 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementDDCBarber52 min
Feb 3, 1:03 AM CSTSpecial Weather StatementDDCBarber42 min
Feb 3, 2:48 AM CSTWinter Storm WarningDDCEllis, Lane, Ness, Scott, Trego20 hr
Feb 3, 3:10 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningDDCTrego8 hr

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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.