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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Apr 15, 2016, 11:51 PM CDT for Gray County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 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
- Apr 15, 2016, 11:51 PM CDT (04:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2016, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
County Gray County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Apr 15, 6:23 PM CDT, 5 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 15, 6:23 PM CDT, 5 hours 28 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Apr 15, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stevens | 41 min |
| Apr 15, 8:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Morton, Stevens | 24 min |
| Apr 15, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 46 min |
| Apr 15, 8:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Morton | 25 min |
| Apr 15, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stanton, Stevens | 51 min |
| Apr 15, 9:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Morton, Stevens | 31 min |
| Apr 15, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Stanton, Stevens | 50 min |
| Apr 15, 10:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Stanton | 43 min |
| Apr 15, 10:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Haskell | 45 min |
| Apr 15, 11:26 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DDC | Morton | 12 hr |
| Apr 16, 12:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Morton | 8 hr |
| Apr 16, 2:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Haskell | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 5:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Gray, Haskell, Meade | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 7:49 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Ford, Hodgeman | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 12:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Morton | 43 min |
| Apr 16, 1:24 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray, Meade | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 1:42 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DDC | Ford, Hodgeman | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 5:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Grant, Haskell, Stanton, Stevens | 46 min |
| Apr 16, 6:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Grant | 57 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.