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Special Weather Statement, NWS Hastings, NE

July 15, 2015Phillips County, Rooks County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this special weather statement at Jul 15, 2015, 1:07 AM CDT for Phillips County, Rooks County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 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
Jul 15, 2015, 1:07 AM CDT (06:07 UTC)
Expired
Jul 15, 2015, 1:45 AM CDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE

Counties Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 15, 1:55 AM CDTTSTM WND GST 554 S Stockton, 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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 189 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.

497 
WWUS83 KGID 150607
SPSGID

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
107 AM CDT WED JUL 15 2015
 
KSZ005-017-150645-
PHILLIPS KS-ROOKS KS-
107 AM CDT WED JUL 15 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR ROOKS AND SOUTHWESTERN PHILLIPS
COUNTIES UNTIL 145 AM CDT...

AT 106 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EDMOND
TO 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PALCO...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

HALF INCH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
PHILLIPSBURG...PLAINVILLE...STOCKTON...LOGAN...PALCO...WOODSTON...
DAMAR...ZURICH...GLADE...SPEED...CODELL AND WEBSTER STATE PARK.

LAT...LON 3913 9960 3957 9960 3957 9963 3973 9963
      3984 9931 3936 9905 3913 9905
TIME...MOT...LOC 0606Z 252DEG 32KT 3956 9989 3916 9968 

$$

HEINLEIN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 15, 6:51 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDFranklin24 min
Jul 15, 1:46 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDPhillips, Rooks44 min
Jul 15, 2:32 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDOsborne43 min
Jul 15, 3:00 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDMitchell, Osborne45 min
Jul 15, 3:43 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDJewell, Mitchell47 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.