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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 25, 2015Edwards County, Pawnee County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at May 25, 2015, 1:23 AM CDT for Edwards County, Pawnee County, Kansas. It was in force for 52 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 25, 2015, 1:23 AM CDT (06:23 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2015, 2:15 AM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS

Counties Edwards County, KS, Pawnee County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 72 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: 819 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 638 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.3

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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.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 25, 12:34 AM CDT, 49 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 25, 12:39 AM CDT, 44 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 25, 12:47 AM CDT, 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 25, 12:49 AM CDT, 34 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 25, 1:11 AM CDT, 12 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 25, 1:23 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 24, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	43 min
May 24, 7:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Stanton	55 min
May 24, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward, Stevens	50 min
May 24, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Kearny	45 min
May 24, 7:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Seward, Stevens	26 min
May 24, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward	20 min
May 24, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Kearny, Stanton	47 min
May 24, 8:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Kearny	48 min
May 24, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Gray, Haskell, Kearny, Meade, Seward and 1 more	44 min
May 24, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Stanton	49 min
May 24, 9:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Meade, Seward	27 min
May 24, 9:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Haskell, Meade, Seward	50 min
May 24, 9:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Finney, Scott	47 min
May 24, 9:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Haskell, Meade, Seward	33 min
May 24, 9:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Stevens	12 min
May 24, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Grant, Haskell, Kearny, Seward, Stevens	49 min
May 24, 9:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Finney, Lane	49 min
May 24, 9:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	DDC	Gray, Meade, Seward	33 min
May 24, 10:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	DDC	Gray, Meade	36 min
May 24, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Grant, Haskell, Kearny, Seward, Stevens	65 min
May 24, 10:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	DDC	Gray, Meade	47 min
May 24, 11:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Gray, Haskell, Meade, Seward	10 hr
May 24, 11:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray, Haskell, Meade, Seward	50 min
May 24, 11:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	DDC	Ford, Gray	34 min
May 25, 12:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Gray, Haskell, Hodgeman, Meade, Seward	46 min
May 25, 12:16 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Ford	29 min
May 25, 12:36 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Ford	24 min
May 25, 12:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Kiowa	55 min
May 25, 12:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Ford, Gray, Haskell, Meade	52 min
May 25, 1:06 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Ford, Gray	6 hr
May 25, 1:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Gray, Hodgeman, Meade	50 min
May 25, 2:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stafford	47 min
May 25, 2:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ford	39 min
May 25, 2:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ford	65 min
May 25, 2:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stafford	48 min
May 25, 4:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Edwards	38 min
May 25, 5:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hodgeman	52 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.