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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

September 4, 2012Stevens County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Sep 4, 2012, 4:21 PM CDT for Stevens County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 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: Sep 4, 2012, 4:21 PM CDT (21:21 UTC)
Expired: Sep 4, 2012, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS

County Stevens County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 151 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: 295 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -259 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2143 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Sep 4, 4:00 PM CDT, 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 4, 4:00 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 4, 2:19 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
219 PM CDT TUE SEP 4 2012

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-051000-
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-
219 PM CDT TUE SEP 4 2012 /119 PM MDT TUE SEP 4 2012/

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

THERE WILL BE CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING
ACROSS WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST KANSAS. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT
EXPECTED ALTHOUGH A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD PRODUCE WIND GUSTS TO
50 MPH ALONG WITH CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

CHANCES FOR AFTERNOON AND NIGHTTIME THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE
THROUGH FRIDAY ACROSS WESTERN KANSAS. THE THREAT FOR SEVERE
WEATHER FROM THESE STORMS IS LOW. THE MAIN THREATS FROM ANY
STORMS
THAT DEVELOP WILL BE STRONG WINDS TO 50 MPH ALONG WITH SMALL HAIL
AND CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT.

&&

FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 4, 4:21 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
421 PM CDT TUE SEP 4 2012

KSZ085-042200-
STEVENS-
421 PM CDT TUE SEP 4 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN STEVENS COUNTY...

AT 419 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF FETERITA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
30 MPH.

SMALL HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3699 10155 3715 10154 3728 10109 3699 10107
      3699 10134
TIME...MOT...LOC 2122Z 228DEG 26KT 3706 10142

SUGDEN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 3, 7:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Morton	47 min
Sep 4, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	49 min
Sep 4, 5:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ellis	47 min
Sep 4, 6:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ellis	45 min
Sep 4, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	30 min

Nearby

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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.