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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 9, 2014Kearny County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 9, 2014, 8:29 PM CDT for Kearny County, Kansas. It was in force for 91 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

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The facts

Issued: Aug 9, 2014, 8:29 PM CDT (01:29 UTC)
Expired: Aug 9, 2014, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 91 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS

County Kearny County, KS

The radar

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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 Aug 9, 7:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 7:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 9, 7:31 PM CDT, 58 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
731 PM CDT SAT AUG 09 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0710 PM     HAIL             8 N MANTER              37.64N 101.91W
08/09/2014  E1.00 INCH       STANTON            KS   PUBLIC

            MOST OF THE HAIL HAS BEEN PEA SIZE OR A LITTLE LARGER.

&&

GERARD

Local storm report, Aug 9, 7:59 PM CDT, 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
759 PM CDT SAT AUG 09 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0735 PM     HAIL             19 N KENDALL            38.21N 101.53W
08/09/2014  E0.75 INCH       KEARNY             KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

0735 PM     HAIL             19 N KENDALL            38.21N 101.52W
08/09/2014  E0.88 INCH       KEARNY             KS   PUBLIC

&&

LEE

Local storm report, Aug 9, 8:02 PM CDT, 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
802 PM CDT SAT AUG 09 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0746 PM     HAIL             11 NW JOHNSON CITY      37.68N 101.89W
08/09/2014  E0.88 INCH       STANTON            KS   PUBLIC

0748 PM     TSTM WND GST     1 N SYRACUSE            37.99N 101.75W
08/09/2014  M71.00 MPH       HAMILTON           KS   AWOS

            REPORT FROM THE SYRACUSE AWOS.

&&

GERARD

Local storm report, Aug 9, 8:19 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 9, 8:29 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 9, 7:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Stanton	4 hr
Aug 9, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Kearny	63 min
Aug 9, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stanton	26 min
Aug 9, 8:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ellis, Ness, Rush, Trego	2 hr
Aug 9, 9:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Finney, Gray	112 min
Aug 9, 9:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ford, Gray, Haskell, Meade, Seward, Stevens	113 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.