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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 26, 2013Trego County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at May 26, 2013, 2:39 AM CDT for Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 51 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: May 26, 2013, 2:39 AM CDT (07:39 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2013, 3:30 AM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS

County Trego County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 1123 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -169 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2043 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 239 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.8

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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 May 26, 1:19 AM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 1:19 AM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 25, 1:37 PM CDT, 13 hours 2 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
137 PM CDT SAT MAY 25 2013

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-261200-
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-
137 PM CDT SAT MAY 25 2013 /1237 PM MDT SAT MAY 25 2013/

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

A SLIGHT RISK OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXIST
STARTING LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND PERSISTING INTO THE EVENING
HOURS FOR LOCATIONS WEST OF A HAYS TO DODGE CITY LINE. THE HIGHEST
THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXIST WEST OF HIGHWAY 83
BETWEEN 6 TO 9 PM THIS EVENING. STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING HAIL UP TO HALF DOLLAR IN SIZE ALONG WITH WIND GUSTS UP
TO 60 MPH. DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL ALSO OCCUR
WITH ANY STORMS FORMING OVER THE OUTLOOK AREA.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

SUNDAY WILL SEE ANOTHER SLIGHT RISK OF STRONG TO SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE AFTERNOON TO EVENING HOURS FOR LOCATIONS
EAST OF A SCOTT CITY TO LIBERAL LINE. ALTHOUGH VERY WARM
TEMPERATURES ALOFT WILL INHIBIT MOST THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT...AN
ISOLATED STORM OR TWO WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING HAIL UP TO TENNIS BALL IN SIZE ALONG WITH WIND GUSTS UP
TO 70 MPH. DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL ALSO OCCUR
WITH ANY STORMS FORMING OVER THE OUTLOOK AREA.

IN ADDITION...HOT, DRY AND WINDY CONDITIONS WILL POSSIBLY DEVELOP
OVER FAR WESTERN KANSAS ON SUNDAY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL CAUSE A
HEIGHTENED THREAT FOR WILDFIRES MAINLY NEAR THE COLORADO BORDER.

THERE WILL CONTINUE TO BE A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE
LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS THROUGH THE MIDDLE PART OF THE
WEEK. THERE IS POTENTIAL FOR THE STORMS TO BE SEVERE ON ANY OF
THESE DAYS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED BETWEEN 6 TO 9 PM THIS
EVENING...ESPECIALLY FOR LOCATIONS WEST OF HIGHWAY 83.

&&

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

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 25, 9:40 PM CDT, 4 hours 59 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
940 PM CDT SAT MAY 25 2013

KSZ074-260345-
STANTON-
940 PM CDT SAT MAY 25 2013

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL STANTON COUNTY...

AT 938 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT
THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING 6 MILES NORTH OF THE SAUNDERS
ELEVATOR...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

RESIDENTS IN CENTRAL STANTON COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITIES OF MANTER
AND JOHNSON CITY...SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY.
LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE
ACTION SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER THREATEN.

LAT...LON 3766 10205 3766 10204 3771 10159 3746 10157
      3747 10205 3758 10205
TIME...MOT...LOC 0240Z 266DEG 19KT 3756 10203

SUGDEN

Special weather statement, May 25, 10:30 PM CDT, 4 hours 9 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 26, 2:26 AM CDT, 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 26, 2:39 AM 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
May 25, 9:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stanton	65 min
May 25, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stanton	39 min
May 25, 10:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stanton	60 min
May 26, 2:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Gray	49 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.