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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 30, 2012Ellis County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at May 30, 2012, 3:43 PM CDT for Ellis County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 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 30, 2012, 3:43 PM CDT (20:43 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2012, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS

County Ellis County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 145 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: 214 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -484 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1567 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 121 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -1.9

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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 30, 2:58 PM CDT, 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 30, 2:58 PM CDT, 45 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 30, 4:34 AM CDT, 11 hours 9 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
434 AM CDT WED MAY 30 2012

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-310945-
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-
434 AM CDT WED MAY 30 2012 /334 AM MDT WED MAY 30 2012/

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS AFTER 9 AM CDT THIS
MORNING, BUT THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. HOWEVER BY
THIS AFTERNOON, THUNDERSTORM CHANCES BECOME LIKELY EAST OF HIGHWAY
283. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF
TENNIS BALLS, WIND GUSTS UP TO 80 MPH, WITH A SLIGHT RISK OF A
TORNADO NEAR THE OKLAHOMA BORDER AND EAST OF ASHLAND. THERE IS A
CONTINUED CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT, BUT SMALL HAIL AND
WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE THE MAIN RISKS TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

FOR THE PERIOD FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY, THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE
FOR STRONG STORMS WITH HAIL UP TO GOLF BALLS EACH AFTERNOON AND
EVENING. ANY SEVERE STORM THAT MIGHT DEVELOP IS ONLY EXPECTED TO
BE ISOLATED IN NATURE, WITH WIDESPREAD STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS NOT
LIKELY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED AFTER 4 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THE
EVENING, SOUTHEAST OF A LARNED TO MEADE LINE.

&&

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

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 30, 3:43 PM 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
May 30, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Rush	56 min
May 30, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness, Pawnee, Rush	64 min
May 30, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman, Ness	56 min
May 30, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Rush	23 min
May 30, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	63 min
May 30, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness, Rush	55 min
May 30, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Rush	58 min
May 30, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman, Ness	65 min
May 30, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Scott	58 min
May 30, 6:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness, Rush	67 min
May 30, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	28 min
May 30, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman	59 min
May 30, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness, Pawnee, Rush	63 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.