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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 6, 2014Barber County, Kansas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2014-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 110 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2014-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -35 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 3:31 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCLane44 min
Jun 6, 3:47 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCSeward43 min
Jun 6, 3:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHaskell, Meade, Seward, Stevens40 min
Jun 6, 4:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Ford, Gray, Meade, Seward48 min
Jun 6, 5:01 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCFord, Gray44 min
Jun 6, 5:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton, Kearny42 min
Jun 6, 5:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton, Kearny46 min
Jun 6, 6:23 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCKearny52 min
Jun 6, 6:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Kearny, Scott48 min
Jun 6, 6:48 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCFinney, Kearny27 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.