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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

March 18, 2012Lane County, Kansas

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 18, 7:24 PM CDTHAIL 0.754 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2012-03-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1747 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 00:00Z on 2012-03-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 289 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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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

$$

WAH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 18, 8:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHaskell, Meade, Seward27 min
Mar 18, 8:40 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCGray50 min
Mar 18, 8:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Ford, Gray, Meade, Seward37 min
Mar 18, 9:31 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCFord44 min
Mar 19, 3:27 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCBarber, Comanche63 min
Mar 19, 4:09 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCEdwards, Pratt, Stafford51 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.