Alert archive / Kansas / Special Weather Statements in 2014
Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Jun 6, 2014, 7:37 AM CDT for Barber County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 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
- Jun 6, 2014, 7:37 AM CDT (12:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2014, 8:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
County Barber County, KS
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -354 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1669 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
320 WWUS83 KDDC 061237 SPSDDC SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 737 AM CDT FRI JUN 6 2014 KSZ089-090-061315- BARBER-COMANCHE- 737 AM CDT FRI JUN 6 2014 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN COMANCHE AND SOUTHERN BARBER COUNTIES... AT 734 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING 8 MILES WEST OF AETNA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. LAT...LON 3700 9918 3724 9922 3734 9834 3700 9835 TIME...MOT...LOC 1237Z 259DEG 26KT 3705 9908 $$ KRUSE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 3:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Lane | 44 min |
| Jun 6, 3:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Seward | 43 min |
| Jun 6, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Haskell, Meade, Seward, Stevens | 40 min |
| Jun 6, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Gray, Meade, Seward | 48 min |
| Jun 6, 5:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ford, Gray | 44 min |
| Jun 6, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny | 42 min |
| Jun 6, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny | 46 min |
| Jun 6, 6:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Kearny | 52 min |
| Jun 6, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Kearny, Scott | 48 min |
| Jun 6, 6:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney, Kearny | 27 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.