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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 11, 2015Stanton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Apr 11, 2015, 6:34 PM CDT for Stanton County, Kansas. It was in force for 41 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: Apr 11, 2015, 6:34 PM CDT (23:34 UTC)
Expired: Apr 11, 2015, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS

County Stanton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 172 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 179 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1834 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 180 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 219 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Apr 11, 3:52 PM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 11, 3:52 PM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 11, 3:10 AM CDT, 15 hours 24 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
310 AM CDT SAT APR 11 2015

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-120815-
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-
310 AM CDT SAT APR 11 2015

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTHWEST
KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR QUARTER
TO GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS CENTRAL AND EASTERN PORTIONS
OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS SUNDAY. ANY STORM THAT DEVELOPS MAY BE CAPABLE
OF PRODUCING UP TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF
50 MPH.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AGAIN TOWARD THE MIDDLE PART OF
NEXT WEEK. HOWEVER, IT IS TOO EARLY TO DETERMINE THE POTENTIAL FOR
SEVERE WEATHER.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING...GENERALLY SOUTHWEST OF A SCOTT CITY TO COLDWATER LINE.

&&

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

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 11, 5:42 PM CDT, 52 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
542 PM CDT SAT APR 11 2015

KSZ030-031-112330-
ELLIS KS-TREGO KS-
542 PM CDT SAT APR 11 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN TREGO AND
NORTHWESTERN ELLIS COUNTIES UNTIL 630 PM CDT...

AT 541 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3
MILES EAST OF WAKEENEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WAKEENEY.

LAT...LON 3902 9945 3898 9988 3904 9990 3913 9981
      3913 9956
TIME...MOT...LOC 2241Z 239DEG 22KT 3904 9982

FINCH

Special weather statement, Apr 11, 6:34 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
634 PM CDT SAT APR 11 2015

KSZ074-084-120015-
MORTON KS-STANTON KS-
634 PM CDT SAT APR 11 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN STANTON AND NORTHERN
MORTON COUNTIES UNTIL 715 PM CDT...

AT 634 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3
MILES SOUTH OF THE SAUNDERS ELEVATOR...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
JOHNSON CITY...MANTER AND THE SAUNDERS ELEVATOR.

LAT...LON 3752 10204 3766 10170 3733 10164 3731 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 2334Z 251DEG 23KT 3742 10204

FINCH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 11, 5:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Trego	48 min
Apr 11, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton, Stanton	54 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.