Alert archive / Kansas / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2012, 1:56 AM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 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 4, 2012, 1:56 AM CDT (06:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2012, 2:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
County Ford County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 2 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 8 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
504
WWUS83 KDDC 040656
SPSDDC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
156 AM CDT SAT AUG 4 2012
KSZ078-040745-
FORD-
156 AM CDT SAT AUG 4 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR FORD COUNTY...
AT 150 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
DISSIPATING MID LEVEL SHOWERS NEAR ENSIGN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30
MPH. AS THESE SHOWERS COLLAPSE...STRONG WIND GUSTS MAY RESULT.
WINDS AROUND 55 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
RESIDENTS IN FORD COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITIES OF DODGE CITY...FT.
DODGE...WRIGHT AND SPEARVILLE...SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION
CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE
APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER THREATEN.
LAT...LON 3790 10013 3791 9969 3765 9958 3755 10019
3776 10020
TIME...MOT...LOC 0655Z 242DEG 25KT 3767 10016
$$
SUGDENThe office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 7:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Stevens | 44 min |
| Aug 3, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 49 min |
| Aug 3, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 30 min |
| Aug 3, 8:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Gray | 48 min |
| Aug 3, 8:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Meade | 62 min |
| Aug 3, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Stevens | 51 min |
| Aug 3, 9:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ford | 62 min |
| Aug 3, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 45 min |
| Aug 3, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 30 min |
| Aug 3, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa | 65 min |
| Aug 3, 10:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Pratt | 56 min |
| Aug 4, 12:00 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 7 more | 101 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.