Alert archive / Kansas / Special Weather Statements in 2015
Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Jul 15, 2015, 2:21 AM CDT for Rush 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
- Jul 15, 2015, 2:21 AM CDT (07:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2015, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
County Rush County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 1023 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2580 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
267 WWUS83 KDDC 150721 SPSDDC SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 221 AM CDT WED JUL 15 2015 KSZ031-045-046-064-065-150800- ELLIS KS-PAWNEE KS-HODGEMAN KS-NESS KS-RUSH KS- 221 AM CDT WED JUL 15 2015 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN PAWNEE...RUSH... NORTHEASTERN HODGEMAN...SOUTHEASTERN NESS AND SOUTH CENTRAL ELLIS COUNTIES UNTIL 300 AM CDT... AT 220 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTH OF BAZINE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... LA CROSSE...BAZINE...MCCRACKEN...RUSH CENTER...ALEXANDER...NEKOMA AND HARGRAVE. LAT...LON 3822 9969 3852 9984 3879 9944 3834 9908 TIME...MOT...LOC 0720Z 237DEG 28KT 3839 9969 $$ FINCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 9:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Hamilton | 41 min |
| Jul 14, 10:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Morton, Stanton | 41 min |
| Jul 14, 11:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Grant, Morton, Stanton, Stevens | 52 min |
| Jul 14, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Scott | 32 min |
| Jul 14, 11:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Morton, Stanton, Stevens | 27 min |
| Jul 14, 11:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Finney, Grant, Gray, Haskell, Kearny, Seward and 1 more | 92 min |
| Jul 15, 12:35 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Finney | 40 min |
| Jul 15, 1:07 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 68 min |
| Jul 15, 1:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 54 min |
| Jul 15, 4:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Morton | 64 min |
| Jul 15, 4:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Stevens | 41 min |
| Jul 15, 5:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Stanton | 49 min |
| Jul 15, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Stanton | 29 min |
| Jul 15, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stanton | 30 min |
| Jul 15, 6:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Stanton | 49 min |
Nearby
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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.