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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Mar 18, 2012, 7:13 PM CDT for Lane County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report 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
- Mar 18, 2012, 7:13 PM CDT (00:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 18, 2012, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
County Lane County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 7:24 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 4 E Healy, 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, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 1747 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 976 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 289 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 335 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.8
- Supercell composite
- 13.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
998
WWUS83 KDDC 190013
SPSDDC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
713 PM CDT SUN MAR 18 2012
KSZ043-044-190100-
LANE-SCOTT-
713 PM CDT SUN MAR 18 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EASTERN SCOTT AND NORTHWESTERN
LANE COUNTIES...
AT 710 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR AMY...MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH.
NICKEL SIZE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
LAT...LON 3839 10052 3844 10074 3871 10066 3871 10040
3870 10039
TIME...MOT...LOC 0013Z 196DEG 39KT 3851 10060
$$
WAHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Haskell, Meade, Seward | 27 min |
| Mar 18, 8:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Gray | 50 min |
| Mar 18, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Gray, Meade, Seward | 37 min |
| Mar 18, 9:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ford | 44 min |
| Mar 19, 3:27 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Barber, Comanche | 63 min |
| Mar 19, 4:09 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Edwards, Pratt, Stafford | 51 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.