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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 29, 2013Lane County, Ness County, Trego County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at May 29, 2013, 7:45 PM CDT for Lane County, Ness County, Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 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 29, 2013, 7:45 PM CDT (00:45 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 2013, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS

Counties Lane County, KS, Ness County, KS, Trego County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 102 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: 1401 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1451 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 225 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 450 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.1
Supercell composite: 17.1

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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 29, 7:08 PM CDT, 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 29, 7:08 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
708 PM CDT WED MAY 29 2013

...UPDATED FOR AVIATION DISCUSSION...

.SHORT TERM...(THIS EVENING THROUGH THURSDAY) ISSUED AT 134 PM CDT WED
MAY 29 2013

AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EASTWARD ACROSS THE
CENTRAL ROCKIES AND INTO THE HIGH PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON. AS THIS
TROUGH APPROACHES, A STRONG UPPER LEVEL JET WILL NOSE INTO THE
SOUTHERN HIGH PLAINS PLACING SOUTHWEST KANSAS IN THE LEFT EXIT
REGION AND IN TURN HELP SUSTAIN ANY STORMS THAT FORM. AS YOU HEAD
TO THE SURFACE, LEE TROUGHING BECOMES APPARENT ACROSS EASTERN
COLORADO WITH A DRYLINE EXTENDING SOUTH ACROSS FAR WESTERN KANSAS
INTO THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE TX/OK PANHANDLES. VERY MOIST
CONDITIONS WILL BE FOUND AHEAD OF THIS BOUNDARY AND IS WHERE STORMS
WILL FORM IN THE AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING HOURS. SOME OF THESE
STORMS WILL BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL UP TO TENNIS BALLS AND
DAMAGING WINDS OF 70 MPH POSSIBLE. TORNADOES WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE
WITH THE STRONGEST SUPERCELLS, ESPECIALLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM DODGE
TO LARNED LATER THIS EVENING. STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL ALSO BE
FELT THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING AHEAD OF THE DRYLINE AND A
WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR AREAS EAST OF A LINE
FROM HILL CITY TO GARDEN CITY TO HUGOTON. ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP
THIS AFTERNOON WILL INITIALLY START OUT AS DISCRETE CELLS THEN
CONGEAL INTO A LINE AS THEY TREK TO THE EAST. ADDITIONAL STORMS WILL
ALSO BE POSSIBLE AHEAD OF THIS LINE ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL
KANSAS. THE INITIAL LINE IS ANTICIPATED TO MOVE INTO WICHITA'S AREA
THIS EVENING. HOWEVER, A FEW ADDITIONAL STORMS MAY FORM ACROSS WEST
CENTRAL AND CENTRAL KANSAS AS THE NIGHT PROGRESSES. THE REMAINDER OF
THE FORECAST AREA SHOULD REMAIN DRY WITH PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES. AS FOR
TEMPERATURES, LOWS TONIGHT ARE FORECASTED TO RANGE FROM THE MID 50S
ACROSS THE KS/CO BORDER TO MID 60S ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS.

THE UPPER LEVEL TROUGH MOVES INTO THE NORTHERN PLAINS TOMORROW AND
STRENGTHENS INTO A LOW. A STRONG UPPER LEVEL JET WILL THEN BE PLACED
ABOVE THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS. TOWARDS THE SURFACE, A WEAK COLD
FRONT IS ANTICIPATED TO MOVE THROUGH WESTERN KANSAS IN THE MORNING.
HOWEVER, THIS WILL ONLY SHIFT WINDS TO MORE OF A WESTERLY DIRECTION.
THE ONLY EXCEPTION TO THIS WILL BE ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL
KANSAS WHERE SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL CONTINUE. A FEW STORMS MAY
DEVELOP ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS IN THE AFTERNOON AS
THE AFOREMENTIONED FRONT STALLS OUT. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD
BECOME SEVERE, BUT QUICKLY MOVE INTO WICHITA'S FORECAST
RESPONSIBILITY. THE REMAINDER OF THE FORECAST AREA SHOULD REMAIN DRY
WITH PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES. HIGHS TOMORROW ARE FORECASTED TO RANGE
FROM THE LOWER 80S ACROSS WEST CENTRAL KANSAS TO AROUND 90 DEGREES
ACROSS THE KS/OK BORDER.

.LONG TERM...(THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY)
ISSUED AT 224 PM CDT WED MAY 29 2013

THE LATEST EXTENDED MODELS SEEM TO DEPICT A VERY SIMILAR TREND TO
THE PREVIOUS EXTENDED FORECAST.  THERE WILL BE A NEAR ZONAL FLOW
ALOFT TO START FRIDAY OFF, WITH A SHORT WAVE COMING THROUGH THE
WESTERLY FLOW ALOFT LATE FRIDAY AND INTO FRIDAY NIGHT.  A COLD FRONT
WILL COME SOUTHWARD WITH THE UPPER WAVE, AND BRING A LITTLE COOLER
AIR IN FOR THE WEEKEND.  FRIDAY'S HIGHS WILL AVERAGE IN THE MID 80S
TO NEAR 90F DEGREES, BUT THEN THE WEEKEND WILL COOL DOWNWARD AND
HAVE HIGHS IN THE MID 70S NORTH OF I-70 AND IN THE LOWER 80S DOWN
ALONG THE OKLAHOMA BORDER.  FOR NOW, THERE WILL BE STRONG WARM UP
MONDAY AND TUESDAY, WITH MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES RISING INTO THE 90S
FOR MOST LOCATIONS.  ANOTHER COLD FRONT IS POISED TO SLIP SOUTHWARD
THROUGH WESTERN KANSAS ON WEDNESDAY, AND RESULTANT HIGH TEMPS WILL
BE LOWER, NEAR 80F DEGREES IN HAYS AND PERHAPS THE MIDDLE 80S IN THE
LIBERAL AND MEDICINE LODGE AREAS.

THE SHORT WAVE CROSSING FRIDAY NIGHT WILL RESULT IN PRECIPITATION
CHANCES EAST OF A HAYS TO DODGE CITY TO ASHLAND LINE.  AFTER FRIDAY
NIGHT, SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS SHOULD BE PRECIP-FREE WITH HIGH PRESSURE
ALOFT TAKING OVER.  THEN THE UPPER FLOW WILL TURN NORTHWESTERLY AND
A SHORT WAVE WILL SLIP SOUTHEASTWARD THROUGH KANSAS MONDAY. WITH THE
SURFACE WARM UP AND COOL UPPER WAVE PASSING OVERHEAD, SMALL SLIGHT
CHANCE TO CHANCES FOR CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION WILL BE INTRODUCED
MONDAY.  THE COLD FRONT ENTERING THE PICTURE AT THE SURFACE LATE
TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY WILL KEEP SLIGHT CHANCES TO CHANCES GOING FOR
THUNDERSTORMS INTO WEDNESDAY.  AS EACH PRECIPITATION EVENT COMES
INTO THE NEAR TERM, SEVERE CHANCES WILL NEED TO BE EVALUATED.

&&

.AVIATION...(FOR THE 00Z TAFS THROUGH 00Z THURSDAY EVENING)
ISSUED AT 704 PM CDT WED MAY 29 2013

STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE AT KGCK/KHYS BETWEEN 02
AND 05Z WITH HAIL AND STRONG WEST TO NORTHWEST WIND GUSTS.
CEILINGS AND VISBYS MAY BRIEFLY DROP TO MVFR OR IFR AS THE STORMS
PASS. UNTIL THEN, STRONG SOUTHEAST WINDS AT 20 TO 35 KTS CAN BE
EXPECTED. STORMS WITH STRONG WIND AND SMALL HAIL COULD REACH KDDC
AFTER 06Z.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
DDC  61  87  60  87 /  50  10  10  20
GCK  58  86  57  86 /  80  10  10  20
EHA  57  89  58  89 /  20  10  10  10
LBL  59  90  60  90 /  20  10  10  20
HYS  61  82  59  84 /  80  20  20  20
P28  65  86  67  88 /  50  40  20  30

&&

.DDC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 9 PM CDT /8 PM MDT/ THIS EVENING FOR KSZ030-
031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090.

&&

SHORT TERM...HOVORKA_42
LONG TERM...BURKE
AVIATION...FINCH

Hazardous weather outlook, May 29, 5:15 AM CDT, 14 hours 30 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...AMENDED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
515 AM CDT WED MAY 29 2013

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-301015-
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-
515 AM CDT WED MAY 29 2013 /415 AM MDT WED MAY 29 2013/

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THERE WILL BE A CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON
AND EARLY TONIGHT ALONG AND EAST OF A DRYLINE WHICH IS EXPECTED TO
EXTEND FROM LAKIN TO ULYSSES TO NEAR HUGOTON EARLY THIS AFTERNOON.
THE PRIMARY HAZARD WILL BE TENNIS BALL SIZE HAIL, AND WIND GUSTS
UP TO 75 MPH. A FEW TORNADOES WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE LATE AFTERNOON
AND THIS EVENING.

A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM TO 9 PM TODAY. PLEASE
REFER TO THE LATEST WEATHER MESSAGE FOR MORE DETAILS.

ELEVATED FIRE DANGER LEVELS CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR THE COLORADO BORDER
LATE THIS AFTERNOON. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

THERE WILL CONTINUE TO BE A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS ON THURSDAY
AND THEN AGAIN LATE FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND FRIDAY EVENING. A FEW OF
THE THUNDERSTORMS ON THURSDAY MAY BE SEVERE WITH HAIL AND STRONG
WINDS BEING THE PRIMARY HAZARD.

IN ADDITION...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND GUSTY WINDS WILL BE
POSSIBLE OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS THURSDAY. THESE
CONDITIONS WILL RESULT IN ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER LEVELS...MAINLY
WEST OF HIGHWAY 83.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED EAST OF A LAKIN TO HUGOTON LINE
AFTER 2 PM CDT.

&&

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 29, 6:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
638 PM CDT WED MAY 29 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0625 PM     HAIL             2 NW LAKIN              37.96N 101.29W
05/29/2013  E1.50 INCH       KEARNY             KS   PUBLIC

&&

01

Special weather statement, May 29, 6:47 PM CDT, 58 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
647 PM CDT WED MAY 29 2013

KSZ089-090-300045-
BARBER-COMANCHE-
647 PM CDT WED MAY 29 2013

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR BARBER AND SOUTHEASTERN COMANCHE
COUNTIES...

AT 645 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BUTTERMILK...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

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

LAT...LON 3705 9941 3743 9890 3735 9835 3703 9836
      3699 9867 3700 9935
TIME...MOT...LOC 2348Z 229DEG 45KT 3705 9924

12

Local storm report, May 29, 7:03 PM CDT, 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
703 PM CDT WED MAY 29 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0650 PM     TORNADO          13 NNW ULYSSES          37.76N 101.44W
05/29/2013                   KEARNY             KS   NWS EMPLOYEE

            A BRIEF TORNADO OCCURRED BETWEEN 650 PM AND 653 PM. SOME
            DUST WAS PICKED UP BY THE TORNADO, BUT NO DAMAGE WAS
            OBSERVED.

&&

01

Local storm report, May 29, 7:13 PM CDT, 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
713 PM CDT WED MAY 29 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0710 PM     HAIL             MANNING                 38.54N 100.72W
05/29/2013  E1.00 INCH       SCOTT              KS   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            VERY HEAVY RAIN ALSO WAS REPORTED.

&&

01

Local storm report, May 29, 7:32 PM CDT, 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
732 PM CDT WED MAY 29 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0710 PM     HAIL             13 SSE KENDALL          37.78N 101.41W
05/29/2013  E1.75 INCH       KEARNY             KS   PUBLIC

0705 PM     HAIL             13 SSE KENDALL          37.76N 101.48W
05/29/2013  E1.00 INCH       KEARNY             KS   PUBLIC

&&

01

Special weather statement, May 29, 7:45 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
745 PM CDT WED MAY 29 2013

KSZ030-031-044-045-063-064-300130-
ELLIS-FINNEY-HODGEMAN-LANE-NESS-TREGO-
745 PM CDT WED MAY 29 2013

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NESS...NORTHEASTERN FINNEY...
NORTHWESTERN HODGEMAN...SOUTHEASTERN LANE...TREGO AND WESTERN ELLIS
COUNTIES...

AT 740 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM SAINT PETER TO
PENDENNIS TO 14 MILES SOUTH OF AMY...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 8
MILES NORTH OF COLLYER TO PENDENNIS TO 14 MILES SOUTH OF AMY...MOVING
EAST AT 35 MPH.

PENNY SIZE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

LAT...LON 3872 9956 3820 9996 3817 10073 3871 10033
      3870 10016 3913 10015 3913 9939
TIME...MOT...LOC 0045Z 268DEG 31KT 3916 10003 3871 10022
          3826 10056

GERARD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Grant, Kearny, Lane, Scott	40 min
May 29, 7:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Grant, Kearny	25 min
May 29, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Lane	49 min
May 30, 2:04 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	DDC	Hodgeman, Ness	12 hr
May 30, 2:34 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	DDC	Grant, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny, Seward, Stanton	17 hr
May 30, 8:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Comanche	50 min
May 30, 2:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ellis	43 min
May 30, 2:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	51 min
May 30, 2:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ness	41 min
May 30, 2:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Ness, Rush, Trego	47 min
May 30, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Rush, Trego	45 min
May 30, 3:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Rush	52 min
May 30, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Rush	40 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.