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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 25, 2014Hamilton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Jun 25, 2014, 4:32 PM MDT for Hamilton County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 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 25, 2014, 4:32 PM MDT (22:32 UTC)
Expired
Jun 25, 2014, 5:15 PM MDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS

County Hamilton County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The text

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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 Jun 25, 2:10 PM MDT, 2 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 2:10 PM MDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 25, 2:32 PM MDT, 2 hours before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
332 PM CDT WED JUN 25 2014

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-262200-
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-
332 PM CDT WED JUN 25 2014 /232 PM MDT WED JUN 25 2014/

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON,
THEN INCREASING ACROSS FAR WESTERN KANSAS IN THE EVENING. MORE
THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP ACROSS EASTERN COLORADO AND FAR WESTERN
KANSAS DURING THE EVENING AND PROPAGATE EASTWARD TOWARD DODGE CITY
BY AROUND MIDNIGHT. WITH WEAK WIND SHEAR, SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE
NOT LIKELY, WITH THE MAIN THREAT OF SMALL HAIL, BRIEF HEAVY
RAINFALL, AND GUSTY OUTFLOW WINDS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

STRONG TO PERHAPS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE IN THE FORECAST FOR
PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL, SOUTHWEST, AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK. THE GREATEST CHANCE WILL BE FARTHER
NORTH, THOUGH, ALONG AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 96.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

WIDESPREAD SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE REQUIRED TONIGHT.

&&

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

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 25, 4:32 PM MDT, 0 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 5:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton, Kearny61 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Kansas, 2014Every special weather statement in 2014

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.