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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 20, 2012Ellis County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Jun 20, 2012, 5:37 PM CDT for Ellis County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 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: Jun 20, 2012, 5:37 PM CDT (22:37 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 2012, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS

County Ellis County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 148 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: 1488 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -401 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 690 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 308 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 400 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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 Jun 20, 3:27 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 3:27 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 20, 4:51 AM CDT, 12 hours 46 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
451 AM CDT WED JUN 20 2012

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-211000-
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-
451 AM CDT WED JUN 20 2012 /351 AM MDT WED JUN 20 2012/

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON ALONG AN ADVANCING
COLD FRONT ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL
KANSAS...MAINLY SOUTHEAST OF A LARNED TO DODGE CITY TO LIBERAL LINE.
A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH THE GREATEST THREAT BEING
LARGE HAIL OF QUARTER TO HALF DOLLAR SIZE AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS
TO 65 MPH. THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL DIMINISH LATE THIS
EVENING AS STORMS MOVE SOUTH INTO OKLAHOMA.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

STORM SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED SOUTHEAST OF A LIBERAL TO DODGE CITY
TO LARNED LINE AFTER 4 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THE LATE
EVENING HOURS.

&&

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

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 20, 5:37 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
537 PM CDT WED JUN 20 2012

KSZ031-202315-
ELLIS-
537 PM CDT WED JUN 20 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EASTERN ELLIS COUNTY...

AT 536 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR GORHAM...OR NEAR EMMERAM...MOVING EAST AT 5
MPH.

WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

RESIDENTS IN EASTERN ELLIS COUNTY...SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER
SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO
TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER THREATEN.

LAT...LON 3887 9903 3886 9910 3887 9911 3890 9911
      3906 9910 3907 9903
TIME...MOT...LOC 2237Z 265DEG 6KT 3894 9906

SUGDEN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 20, 9:04 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	DDC	Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Ford and 8 more	4 hr

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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.