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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 16, 2015Gray County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at May 16, 2015, 12:51 AM CDT for Gray County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 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: May 16, 2015, 12:51 AM CDT (05:51 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 2015, 1:30 AM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS

County Gray County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 48 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: 677 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1986 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.0

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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 May 16, 12:02 AM CDT, 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 16, 12:02 AM CDT, 49 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 15, 3:53 AM CDT, 20 hours 58 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
353 AM CDT FRI MAY 15 2015

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-161115-
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 FRI MAY 15 2015

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH
TONIGHT. ANY STORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WOULD BE
ISOLATED TO SCATTERED AHEAD OF THE DRYLINE, PARTICULARLY FROM
SEWARD, MEADE, FORD, GRAY AND FINNEY COUNTIES NORTHWARD TO LANE
AND TREGO COUNTIES. HAIL AS LARGE AS PING PONG BALLS IS POSSIBLE
WITH THESE STORMS. MORE WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP
AROUND MIDNIGHT AND THEN PROGRESS ACROSS SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS
OVERNIGHT. THESE STORMS WILL ALSO BE CAPABLE OF HAIL AS LARGE AS
PING PONG BALLS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

THE THUNDERSTORMS MENTIONED IN THE DAY ONE SECTION WILL LINGER IN
CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS THROUGH MID-MORNING SATURDAY.
THEN BY SATURDAY AFTERNOON, ANOTHER ROUND OF SEVERE STORMS IS
POSSIBLE. THESE STORMS COULD CONTAIN HAIL AS LARGE AS TENNIS BALLS
AND EVEN A FEW TORNADOES.

THERE IS ANOTHER CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY.
IT IS TOO EARLY TO TELL IF THESE STORMS WILL BE SEVERE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

STORM SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THEN AGAIN
AFTER MIDNIGHT.

&&

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

FINCH

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 15, 7:36 PM CDT, 5 hours 15 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 16, 12:15 AM CDT, 36 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 16, 12:51 AM 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
May 15, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	28 min
May 16, 12:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Haskell, Meade, Seward	45 min
May 16, 1:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Barber	41 min
May 16, 3:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Morton, Stevens	35 min
May 16, 3:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Grant, Stevens	37 min
May 16, 4:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Haskell, Seward, Stevens	27 min
May 16, 4:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Barber	30 min
May 16, 4:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Haskell	24 min
May 16, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Haskell	21 min
May 16, 4:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray	13 min
May 16, 5:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Pratt	34 min
May 16, 5:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Meade	37 min
May 16, 6:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Clark	33 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Kansas, 2015 Every special weather statement in 2015

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.