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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 18, 2014Lane County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 18, 2014, 7:52 PM CDT for Lane 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: Aug 18, 2014, 7:52 PM CDT (00:52 UTC)
Expired: Aug 18, 2014, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS

County Lane County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 291 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: 1217 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -110 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2149 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

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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 Aug 18, 6:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 18, 6:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 18, 3:53 AM CDT, 15 hours 59 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
353 AM CDT MON AUG 18 2014

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-190900-
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-
353 AM CDT MON AUG 18 2014 /253 AM MDT MON AUG 18 2014/

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS, SOME WITH SMALL HAIL AND STRONG OUTFLOW
WINDS FROM 50 TO 60 MPH, ARE POSSIBLE IN THE AFTERNOON AND
OVERNIGHT. WIDESPREAD SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

SMALL CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN THE FORECAST FROM
WEDNESDAY INTO SUNDAY, MAINLY OVER FAR WESTERN KANSAS AND ACROSS
THE INTERSTATE 70 CORRIDOR. AT THIS TIME IT IS TOO EARLY TO
DETERMINE SEVERITY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT LIKELY TODAY AND TONIGHT.

&&

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

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 18, 4:01 PM CDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
401 PM CDT MON AUG 18 2014

KSZ074-075-085-182145-
GRANT-STANTON-STEVENS-
401 PM CDT MON AUG 18 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN STEVENS...
SOUTHEASTERN STANTON AND SOUTHWESTERN GRANT COUNTIES...

AT 359 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTH OF BIG BOW...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LAT...LON 3752 10164 3759 10127 3735 10122 3734 10155
      3739 10155 3739 10161
TIME...MOT...LOC 2101Z 262DEG 7KT 3744 10151

WAH

Special weather statement, Aug 18, 4:13 PM CDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
413 PM CDT MON AUG 18 2014

KSZ087-088-182200-
CLARK-MEADE-
413 PM CDT MON AUG 18 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MEADE AND
SOUTHWESTERN CLARK COUNTIES...

AT 412 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTH OF MEADE STATE PARK...MOVING EAST
AT 20 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LAT...LON 3712 10049 3732 10004 3700 9993 3700 10045
TIME...MOT...LOC 2113Z 250DEG 16KT 3709 10038

WAH

Special weather statement, Aug 18, 4:24 PM CDT, 3 hours 28 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 18, 7:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Scott	38 min
Aug 18, 9:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman	50 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.