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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Mar 19, 2012, 3:27 AM CDT for Barber County, Comanche County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 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 19, 2012, 3:27 AM CDT (08:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2012, 4:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Barber County, KS, Comanche County, KS
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 3:36 AM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 9 Nw Lake Coldwater, 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 100 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.
010 WWUS83 KDDC 190827 SPSDDC SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 327 AM CDT MON MAR 19 2012 KSZ080-088>090-190930- BARBER-CLARK-COMANCHE-KIOWA- 327 AM CDT MON MAR 19 2012 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR BARBER...COMANCHE...EASTERN CLARK AND SOUTHERN KIOWA COUNTIES... AT 322 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SITKA...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. SMALL HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LAT...LON 3746 9852 3703 9844 3702 9956 3745 9969 TIME...MOT...LOC 0827Z 249DEG 72KT 3714 9943 $$ 12
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 7:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Lane | 47 min |
| 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, 4:09 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Edwards, Pratt, Stafford | 51 min |
Nearby
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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.