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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 19, 2015Rush County, Kansas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2015-07-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 300 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 2015-07-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 17 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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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 

$$

RUSSELL

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 18, 7:54 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCSeward51 min
Jul 18, 8:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward, Stevens44 min
Jul 18, 8:59 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCMorton, Stevens46 min
Jul 18, 9:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton, Stevens37 min
Jul 18, 10:57 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCStevens48 min
Jul 18, 11:27 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCSeward48 min
Jul 19, 12:39 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCScott66 min
Jul 19, 1:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane, Scott66 min
Jul 19, 2:07 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCLane38 min
Jul 19, 2:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane, Ness, Trego59 min
Jul 19, 2:56 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCEllis49 min
Jul 19, 2:52 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchDDCEllis, Trego12 hr

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.