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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 15, 2015Rush County, Kansas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2015-07-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1023 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2015-07-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 14, 9:04 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCHamilton41 min
Jul 14, 10:34 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCMorton, Stanton41 min
Jul 14, 11:08 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCGrant, Morton, Stanton, Stevens52 min
Jul 14, 11:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane, Scott32 min
Jul 14, 11:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant, Morton, Stanton, Stevens27 min
Jul 14, 11:43 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCFinney, Grant, Gray, Haskell, Kearny, Seward and 1 more92 min
Jul 15, 12:35 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCFinney40 min
Jul 15, 1:07 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCEllis, Trego68 min
Jul 15, 1:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Rush54 min
Jul 15, 4:11 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCMorton64 min
Jul 15, 4:34 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCStevens41 min
Jul 15, 5:11 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCStanton49 min
Jul 15, 5:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant, Hamilton, Kearny, Stanton29 min
Jul 15, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton, Stanton30 min
Jul 15, 6:56 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCStanton49 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.