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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 29, 2014Stafford County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Jun 29, 2014, 7:37 AM CDT for Stafford 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 29, 2014, 7:37 AM CDT (12:37 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 2014, 8:15 AM CDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS

County Stafford County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 121 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 115 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 2014-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2435 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2014-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -41 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2435 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-174 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1084 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
123 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

009 
WWUS83 KDDC 291237
SPSDDC

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

KSZ066-291315-
STAFFORD-
737 AM CDT SUN JUN 29 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN STAFFORD COUNTY...

AT 733 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR SEWARD...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

PENNY SIZE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3806 9888 3827 9891 3827 9847 3826 9847
      3804 9847
TIME...MOT...LOC 1237Z 269DEG 29KT 3821 9875

$$

RUSSELL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 29, 3:17 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCNess73 min
Jun 29, 6:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCTrego60 min
Jun 29, 6:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane, Ness, Scott60 min
Jun 29, 7:07 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCTrego53 min
Jun 29, 7:16 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCTrego3 hr
Jun 29, 7:30 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCNess60 min
Jun 29, 7:45 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCLane, Ness3 hr
Jun 29, 7:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman, Ness39 min
Jun 29, 8:33 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCPawnee42 min
Jun 29, 9:49 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningDDCTrego49 hr

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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.