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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 8, 2015, 7:39 PM CDT for Grant County, Stanton County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 2015, 7:39 PM CDT (00:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2015, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Grant County, KS, Stanton County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 7:57 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 58 | 2 Nnw Ulysses, KS |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 822 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2808 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
377
WWUS83 KDDC 090039
SPSDDC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
739 PM CDT SAT AUG 8 2015
KSZ061-074-075-084-090115-
GRANT KS-HAMILTON KS-MORTON KS-STANTON KS-
739 PM CDT SAT AUG 8 2015
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTH CENTRAL MORTON...
SOUTHEASTERN HAMILTON...STANTON...SOUTHWESTERN KEARNY AND
SOUTHWESTERN GRANT COUNTIES UNTIL 815 PM CDT/715 PM MDT/...
AT 738 PM CDT /638 PM MDT/...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTH OF MANTER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
HALF INCH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ULYSSES...JOHNSON CITY...MANTER AND BIG BOW.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 3791 10174 3776 10153 3774 10153 3774 10150
3748 10115 3733 10186 3752 10198
TIME...MOT...LOC 0038Z 230DEG 33KT 3745 10187
$$
JJOHNSONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Grant, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny, Morton and 3 more | 49 min |
| Aug 8, 8:29 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DDC | Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Stanton | 12 hr |
| Aug 8, 8:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ellis | 46 min |
| Aug 8, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 24 min |
| Aug 8, 9:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Hodgeman | 53 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.