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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 29, 2014Ness County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Jun 29, 2014, 3:17 AM CDT for Ness County, Kansas. It was in force for 73 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 29, 2014, 3:17 AM CDT (08:17 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 2014, 4:30 AM CDT
In force: 73 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS

County Ness County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 103 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: 943 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1251 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.5

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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 Jun 29, 3:01 AM CDT, 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 3:01 AM CDT, 16 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 28, 2:39 PM CDT, 12 hours 38 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 28, 10:04 PM CDT, 5 hours 13 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 28, 10:45 PM CDT, 4 hours 32 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 29, 3:17 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
317 AM CDT SUN JUN 29 2014

KSZ030-044-045-290930-
LANE-NESS-TREGO-
317 AM CDT SUN JUN 29 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN LANE...NORTHWESTERN
NESS AND SOUTHWESTERN TREGO COUNTIES...

AT 316 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR PENDENNIS...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3868 9975 3842 10010 3870 10053 3871 10051
      3870 10016 3888 10016
TIME...MOT...LOC 0817Z 288DEG 11KT 3871 10030

RUSSELL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 29, 6:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	60 min
Jun 29, 6:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Ness, Scott	60 min
Jun 29, 7:07 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Trego	53 min
Jun 29, 7:16 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Trego	3 hr
Jun 29, 7:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ness	60 min
Jun 29, 7:37 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stafford	38 min
Jun 29, 7:45 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Lane, Ness	3 hr
Jun 29, 7:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman, Ness	39 min
Jun 29, 8:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Pawnee	42 min
Jun 29, 9:49 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	DDC	Trego	49 hr

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Kansas, 2014 Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.