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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Apr 2, 2014, 6:27 PM CDT for Barber County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 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
- Apr 2, 2014, 6:27 PM CDT (23:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2014, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
County Barber County, KS
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 233 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
- 1841 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -176 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 616 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 483 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 444 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 5.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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 Apr 2, 3:46 PM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 2, 3:46 PM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 2, 3:52 PM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 352 PM CDT WED APR 2 2014 KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-031000- 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- 352 PM CDT WED APR 2 2014 /252 PM MDT WED APR 2 2014/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL...SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING EAST OF LINE FROM HAYS TO COLDWATER. WHILE WIDESPREAD SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT ANTICIPATED, A FEW THUNDERSTORMS COULD CONTAIN HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS. A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR FAR SOUTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING. SEE THE LATEST FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE FOR MORE DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... CALLS TO SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED AROUND PRATT AND MEDICINE LODGE THIS EVENING. && FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 2, 6:27 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
627 PM CDT WED APR 2 2014
KSZ090-030015-
BARBER-
627 PM CDT WED APR 2 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN BARBER COUNTY...
AT 624 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT
THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING NEAR KIOWA...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 45 MPH.
NICKEL SIZE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.
LAT...LON 3699 9836 3699 9862 3700 9863 3739 9846
3739 9835 3738 9834 3701 9834
TIME...MOT...LOC 2327Z 209DEG 37KT 3700 9849
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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.