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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 7, 2012Edwards County, Kansas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2012-08-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 644 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 12:00Z on 2012-08-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 55 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 7, 3:39 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCKiowa51 min
Aug 7, 4:25 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCEdwards, Kiowa50 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.