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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Jul 8, 2015, 11:48 PM CDT for Morton County, Kansas. It was in force for 42 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
- Jul 8, 2015, 11:48 PM CDT (04:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2015, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
County Morton County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 176 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 182 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2258 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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 Jul 8, 6:22 PM CDT, 5 hours 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 6:22 PM CDT, 5 hours 26 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 8, 4:12 AM CDT, 19 hours 36 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 412 AM CDT WED JUL 8 2015 KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-091000- 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- 412 AM CDT WED JUL 8 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL...SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. DISCUSSION...THERE WILL BE A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS LATE TODAY ACROSS FAR SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE IN COVERAGE EARLY TONIGHT AND CONTINUE THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING. A FEW OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS EARLY THIS EVENING WEST OF HIGHWAY 83 WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50MPH. WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED... LIMITED TORNADO RISK. LIMITED HAIL RISK. LIMITED THUNDERSTORM WIND DAMAGE RISK. LIMITED FLOODING RISK. ELEVATED LIGHTNING RISK. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. DISCUSSION...THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ONGOING EARLY THURSDAY MORNING ACROSS MOST OF WESTERN KANSAS. THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE STRONG OR SEVERE. ANOTHER CHANCE FOR STRONG TO MARGINALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE LATE THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EARLY THURSDAY NIGHT. THE MAIN HAZARD FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE PENNY SIZE TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUST OF 50 TO 60 MPH. HAZARDS WEATHER RISK... THURSDAY... ELEVATED FLOODING RISK. SIGNIFICANT LIGHTNING RISK. FRIDAY... LIMITED LIGHTNING RISK. LIMITED NON THUNDERSTORM WIND RISK. SATURDAY... LIMITED EXCESSIVE HEAT RISK. SUNDAY... LIMITED LIGHTNING RISK. ELEVATED EXCESSIVE HEAT RISK. MONDAY... LIMITED LIGHTNING RISK. LIMITED EXCESSIVE HEAT RISK. TUESDAY... LIMITED LIGHTNING RISK. LIMITED EXCESSIVE HEAT RISK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED LATER TODAY OR TONIGHT. && FOR MORE DETAILS VISIT OUR WEBPAGE HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC/EHWO
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 11:48 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1148 PM CDT WED JUL 8 2015 KSZ084-090530- MORTON KS- 1148 PM CDT WED JUL 8 2015 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR MORTON COUNTY UNTIL 1230 AM CDT... AT 1147 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES EAST OF STONINGTON...OR 11 MILES WEST OF RICHFIELD...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. HALF INCH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ROLLA AND RICHFIELD. LAT...LON 3738 10204 3738 10159 3706 10162 3717 10204 TIME...MOT...LOC 0447Z 288DEG 29KT 3730 10198 GERARD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 12:48 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | DDC | Grant, Stanton | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 1:22 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DDC | Grant, Stanton | 9 hr |
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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.