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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2012, 3:16 PM CDT for Edwards 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 7, 2012, 3:16 PM CDT (20:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2012, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
County Edwards County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 34 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
- 644 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -244 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2402 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
763 WWUS83 KDDC 072016 SPSDDC SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 316 PM CDT TUE AUG 7 2012 KSZ064-078>080-072100- EDWARDS-FORD-HODGEMAN-KIOWA- 316 PM CDT TUE AUG 7 2012 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN FORD...NORTHWESTERN KIOWA...SOUTHEASTERN HODGEMAN AND SOUTHWESTERN EDWARDS COUNTIES... AT 315 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR BELLEFONT...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. SMALL HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LAT...LON 3785 9931 3766 9950 3792 9983 3806 9969 TIME...MOT...LOC 2016Z 010DEG 16KT 3793 9969 $$ WAH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 3:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Kiowa | 51 min |
| Aug 7, 4:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa | 50 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.