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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 17, 2012Grant County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at May 17, 2012, 5:16 PM CDT for Grant County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 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
May 17, 2012, 5:16 PM CDT (22:16 UTC)
Expired
May 17, 2012, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS

County Grant County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 114 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 12:00Z on 2012-05-17Temperature 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2012-05-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 95 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2222 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
173 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.

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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 May 17, 2:27 PM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 17, 2:27 PM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, May 17, 2:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
233 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2012

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-181945-
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-
233 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2012 /133 PM MDT THU MAY 17 2012/

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

WIDELY SCATTERED HIGH BASED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS WESTERN KANSAS. THE BEST CHANCE FOR
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MAINLY WEST OF HIGHWAY 83 TO THE COLORADO
BORDER. THE MAIN HAZARD FOR ANY POTENTIAL STORM WILL BE WIND GUSTS
UP TO 60 MPH AND OCCASIONAL CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR FRIDAY FROM 11 AM TO 8 PM. PLEASE
REFER TO THE LATEST WEATHER MESSAGE FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS PORTIONS OF WESTERN KANSAS
SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING IN ASSOCIATION WITH A COLD FRONT.
ANY DEVELOPING STORM MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH QUARTER SIZE HAIL OR
GREATER POSSIBLE AND DAMAGING WINDS.

STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AGAIN TUESDAY. IT IS TOO EARLY TO
DETERMINE WHETHER ANY STORMS DEVELOPING EARLY NEXT WEEK WILL
BECOME SEVERE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT.

&&

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

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 17, 5:16 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
516 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2012

KSZ075-076-085-172300-
GRANT-HASKELL-STEVENS-
516 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR GRANT...NORTHERN STEVENS AND
NORTHWESTERN HASKELL COUNTIES...

AT 511 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR HICKOK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

WINDS AROUND 55 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3774 10127 3773 10103 3762 10081 3738 10128
      3753 10142
TIME...MOT...LOC 2216Z 225DEG 25KT 3754 10125

RUSSELL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 17, 2:46 PM CDTWind AdvisoryDDCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 13 more29 hr

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Kansas, 2012Every 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.