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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 24, 2012Grant County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 24, 2012, 4:01 PM CDT for Grant 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 24, 2012, 4:01 PM CDT (21:01 UTC)
Expired: Aug 24, 2012, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS

County Grant County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 110 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 303 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -200 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 708 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 239 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 332 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.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Aug 24, 3:33 PM CDT, 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 24, 3:33 PM CDT, 28 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 24, 4:00 AM CDT, 12 hours 1 minute before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
400 AM CDT FRI AUG 24 2012

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-250900-
TREGO-ELLIS-SCOTT-LANE-NESS-RUSH-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-HODGEMAN-
PAWNEE-STAFFORD-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA-
PRATT-MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK-COMANCHE-BARBER-
400 AM CDT FRI AUG 24 2012 /300 AM MDT FRI AUG 24 2012/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...SOUTH
CENTRAL...SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING EAST ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS EARLY
THIS MORNING MAY LINGER THROUGH MID TO LATE MORNING. THE PRIMARY
THREATS WILL BE OCCASIONAL CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND BRIEF
HEAVY RAINFALL.

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AGAIN LATE
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS CENTRAL AND PORTIONS OF
SOUTHWEST KANSAS. ANY STORM THAT DEVELOPS WILL BE CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH, CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING, AND PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL. ALTHOUGH TO A LESSER
EXTENT, NICKEL TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL REMAINS A POSSIBILTY WITH
THE STRONGEST STORMS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE SATURDAY THROUGH EARLY
SUNDAY MORNING. AGAIN, THE MAIN FOCUS WILL BE ON PERIODS OF HEAVY
RAINFALL WITH POTENTIALLY STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING THE PRIMARY THREATS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING...MAINLY EAST OF A SCOTT CITY TO LIBERAL LINE.

&&

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 24, 12:14 PM CDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 24, 3:32 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 24, 4:01 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 24, 7:00 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	DDC	Trego	6 days
Aug 24, 3:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stanton	43 min
Aug 24, 3:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton, Stanton	34 min
Aug 24, 4:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stanton	31 min
Aug 24, 4:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Lane, Scott	46 min
Aug 24, 6:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Gray, Meade	39 min
Aug 24, 6:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Gray, Meade	47 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Kansas, 2012 Every special weather statement in 2012

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.