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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 3, 2012, 5:01 PM CDT for Stanton 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
- Aug 3, 2012, 5:01 PM CDT (22:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2012, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
County Stanton County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1328 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -241 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1476 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 295 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
209 WWUS83 KDDC 032201 SPSDDC SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 501 PM CDT FRI AUG 3 2012 KSZ061-062-074-075-032245- GRANT-HAMILTON-KEARNY-STANTON- 501 PM CDT FRI AUG 3 2012 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN STANTON... NORTHWESTERN GRANT...SOUTHEASTERN HAMILTON AND SOUTHWESTERN KEARNY COUNTIES... AT 500 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF JOHNSON CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LAT...LON 3789 10140 3768 10128 3757 10171 3774 10182 TIME...MOT...LOC 2201Z 245DEG 16KT 3769 10165 $$ KRUSE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 11:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Hamilton | 74 min |
| Aug 3, 4:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Stanton | 46 min |
| Aug 3, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stanton | 51 min |
| Aug 3, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Morton, Stanton, Stevens | 45 min |
| Aug 3, 6:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Morton | 42 min |
| Aug 3, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 63 min |
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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.