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 19, 2015, 3:30 AM CDT for Rush County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 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 19, 2015, 3:30 AM CDT (08:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 2015, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
County Rush County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 300 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3123 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
173
WWUS83 KDDC 190830
SPSDDC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
330 AM CDT SUN JUL 19 2015
KSZ031-045-046-065-190900-
ELLIS KS-PAWNEE KS-NESS KS-RUSH KS-
330 AM CDT SUN JUL 19 2015
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN PAWNEE...
SOUTHEASTERN TREGO...RUSH...NORTHEASTERN NESS AND SOUTHERN ELLIS
COUNTIES UNTIL 400 AM CDT...
AT 330 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
LIEBENTHAL...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
HALF INCH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LA CROSSE...BISON...SCHOENCHEN...MCCRACKEN...RUSH CENTER...
LIEBENTHAL...TIMKEN...ALEXANDER...SHAFFER...LORETTA...NEKOMA...
HARGRAVE AND PFEIFER.
LAT...LON 3873 9907 3826 9905 3850 9985 3870 9962
3870 9960 3873 9958
TIME...MOT...LOC 0830Z 279DEG 32KT 3862 9933
$$
RUSSELLThe office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 7:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Seward | 51 min |
| Jul 18, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward, Stevens | 44 min |
| Jul 18, 8:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Morton, Stevens | 46 min |
| Jul 18, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stevens | 37 min |
| Jul 18, 10:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Stevens | 48 min |
| Jul 18, 11:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Seward | 48 min |
| Jul 19, 12:39 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Scott | 66 min |
| Jul 19, 1:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Scott | 66 min |
| Jul 19, 2:07 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Lane | 38 min |
| Jul 19, 2:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Ness, Trego | 59 min |
| Jul 19, 2:56 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ellis | 49 min |
| Jul 19, 2:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 12 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.