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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 3, 2012Pratt County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 3, 2012, 10:34 PM CDT for Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 56 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, 10:34 PM CDT (03:34 UTC)
Expired
Aug 3, 2012, 11:30 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS

County Pratt County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 103 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 00:00Z on 2012-08-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 603 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2012-08-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -19 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
603 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3101 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

778 
WWUS83 KDDC 040334
SPSDDC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1034 PM CDT FRI AUG 3 2012

KSZ066-079>081-040430-
EDWARDS-KIOWA-PRATT-STAFFORD-
1034 PM CDT FRI AUG 3 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN KIOWA...PRATT...
SOUTHEASTERN EDWARDS AND SOUTHERN STAFFORD COUNTIES...

AT 1029 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM BELPRE TO CROFT...
MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE
STORMS.

LAT...LON 3804 9849 3749 9848 3748 9902 3797 9915
TIME...MOT...LOC 0333Z 271DEG 23KT 3797 9908 3748 9897

$$

KRUSE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 7:16 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCStevens44 min
Aug 3, 8:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward49 min
Aug 3, 8:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton30 min
Aug 3, 8:27 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCGray48 min
Aug 3, 8:28 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCMeade62 min
Aug 3, 8:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant, Stevens51 min
Aug 3, 9:13 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCFord62 min
Aug 3, 9:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord45 min
Aug 3, 9:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord30 min
Aug 3, 9:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Kiowa65 min
Aug 4, 12:00 AM CDTWind AdvisoryDDCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 7 more101 min
Aug 4, 1:56 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCFord49 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.