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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 3, 2012, 6:33 PM CDT for Morton County, Kansas. It was in force for 42 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 2012, 6:33 PM CDT (23:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2012, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
County Morton County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 175 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 7:20 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 10 Sw Richfield, KS |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 181 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.
076 WWUS83 KDDC 032333 SPSDDC SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 633 PM CDT FRI AUG 3 2012 KSZ084-040015- MORTON- 633 PM CDT FRI AUG 3 2012 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN MORTON COUNTY... AT 629 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES WEST OF RICHFIELD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LAT...LON 3739 10172 3717 10171 3708 10205 3728 10205 TIME...MOT...LOC 2333Z 242DEG 17KT 3720 10201 $$ 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, 5:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Stanton | 44 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, 6:57 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.