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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2012, 3:39 PM CDT for Kiowa County, Kansas. It was in force for 51 min. 4 reports 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 7, 2012, 3:39 PM CDT (20:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2012, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
County Kiowa County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 3:43 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Mullinville, KS | MINOR ROOF DAMAGE WAS REPORTED AT THE METHODIST CHURCH IN MULLINVILLE. SEVERAL WINDOWS WERE ALSO CRACKED OR BROKEN. |
| Aug 7, 3:43 PM CDT | HAIL 0.5 | W Mullinville, KS | |
| Aug 7, 4:30 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 55 | Ene Mullinville, KS | |
| Aug 7, 4:30 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Ene Mullinville, 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 50 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.
208 WWUS83 KDDC 072039 SPSDDC SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 339 PM CDT TUE AUG 7 2012 KSZ078-080-088-089-072130- CLARK-COMANCHE-FORD-KIOWA- 339 PM CDT TUE AUG 7 2012 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN CLARK...NORTHWESTERN COMANCHE...SOUTHEASTERN FORD AND WESTERN KIOWA COUNTIES... AT 338 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR MULLINVILLE...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH. NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LAT...LON 3736 9940 3747 9967 3768 9950 3760 9930 TIME...MOT...LOC 2040Z 026DEG 10KT 3755 9945 $$ WAH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 3:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Edwards | 44 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.