Alert archive / Kansas / Special Weather Statements in 2015
Special Weather Statement, NWS Hastings, NE
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 1:55 AM CDT | TSTM WND GST 55 | 4 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.
- 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
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
$$
HEINLEINThe office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 6:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Franklin | 24 min |
| Jul 15, 1:46 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Phillips, Rooks | 44 min |
| Jul 15, 2:32 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Osborne | 43 min |
| Jul 15, 3:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Mitchell, Osborne | 45 min |
| Jul 15, 3:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Jewell, Mitchell | 47 min |
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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.