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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 27, 2012Ellis County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Apr 27, 2012, 7:09 AM CDT for Ellis County, Kansas. It was in force for 51 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: Apr 27, 2012, 7:09 AM CDT (12:09 UTC)
Expired: Apr 27, 2012, 8:00 AM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS

County Ellis County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 143 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: 1445 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 487 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 284 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 333 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.2
Supercell composite: 9.5

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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 Apr 27, 6:46 AM CDT, 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 27, 6:46 AM CDT, 23 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 27, 3:19 AM CDT, 3 hours 50 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
319 AM CDT FRI APR 27 2012

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-280830-
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-
319 AM CDT FRI APR 27 2012 /219 AM MDT FRI APR 27 2012/

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

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE THIS MORNING AS A COLD FRONT SWEEPS ACROSS
WESTERN KANSAS THEN INTO SOUTH CENTRAL AND CENTRAL KANSAS THIS
AFTERNOON. A FEW STORMS NORTH OF DODGE CITY MAY BECOME SEVERE
BEFORE NOON WITH HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS AND WIND GUSTS
UP TO 70 MPH BEING THE MAIN CONCERN.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY AS A SERIES OF
DISTURBANCES MOVE ACROSS THE HIGH PLAINS. IT IS TOO EARLY TO TELL
WHEATHER THESE STORMS WILL BE SEVERE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

A FEW SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED NORTH OF GARDEN CITY TO LARNED DURING
THE MORNING AND EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS.

&&

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

HOVORKA 42

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 27, 6:00 AM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
600 AM CDT FRI APR 27 2012

KSZ030-045-271145-
NESS-TREGO-
600 AM CDT FRI APR 27 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL NESS AND SOUTHERN TREGO
COUNTIES...

AT 556 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NESS CITY...MOVING NORTH AT
50 MPH.

SMALL HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3887 10010 3902 9989 3885 9961 3829 9981
      3832 10010
TIME...MOT...LOC 1059Z 185DEG 52KT 3839 9996

FINCH

Special weather statement, Apr 27, 6:04 AM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
604 AM CDT FRI APR 27 2012

KSZ030-045-271145-
NESS-TREGO-
604 AM CDT FRI APR 27 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN NESS AND WESTERN TREGO
COUNTIES...

AT 601 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR ARNOLD...MOVING NORTH AT 50 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LAT...LON 3912 9981 3858 9993 3863 10019 3870 10019
      3870 10016 3912 10015
TIME...MOT...LOC 1104Z 185DEG 45KT 3864 10005

FINCH

Special weather statement, Apr 27, 7:09 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
Apr 26, 7:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stanton	59 min
Apr 26, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Morton, Stanton, Stevens	62 min
Apr 26, 9:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hamilton	56 min
Apr 26, 9:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Clark	58 min
Apr 27, 6:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ness, Trego	45 min
Apr 27, 6:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Trego	41 min
Apr 27, 6:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	32 min
Apr 27, 7:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	20 min
Apr 27, 10:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ellis	42 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Kansas, 2012 Every special weather statement in 2012

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.