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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 29, 2016Seward County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Apr 29, 2016, 12:40 AM CDT for Seward County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 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 29, 2016, 12:40 AM CDT (05:40 UTC)
Expired: Apr 29, 2016, 1:30 AM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS

County Seward County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 122 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1808 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 99 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 251 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

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 28, 6:03 PM CDT, 6 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 6:03 PM CDT, 6 hours 37 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 28, 4:30 AM CDT, 20 hours 10 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
430 AM CDT THU APR 28 2016

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-290930-
TREGO-ELLIS-SCOTT-LANE-NESS-RUSH-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-HODGEMAN-
PAWNEE-STAFFORD-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA-
PRATT-MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK-COMANCHE-BARBER-
430 AM CDT THU APR 28 2016 /330 AM MDT THU APR 28 2016/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...SOUTH
CENTRAL...SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

DISCUSSION...WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED
TONIGHT. THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE.

WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED...

  LIMITED HAIL RISK.
  ELEVATED FLOODING RISK.
  SIGNIFICANT LIGHTNING RISK.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

DISCUSSION...WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED
FRIDAY. THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. TEMPERATURES
COULD DROP CLOSE TO THE FREEZING MARK IN FAR WESTERN KANSAS EARLY
SATURDAY MORNING. THERE IS A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
LATE SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT BUT THESE ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE
SEVERE.

HAZARDS WEATHER RISK...

  FRIDAY...
  ELEVATED FLOODING RISK.
  SIGNIFICANT LIGHTNING RISK.

  SATURDAY...
  LIMITED LIGHTNING RISK.
  SIGNIFICANT FROST RISK.

  SUNDAY...
  LIMITED LIGHTNING RISK.

  MONDAY...
  LIMITED LIGHTNING RISK.

  TUESDAY...
  NO HAZARDS.

  WEDNESDAY...
  NO HAZARDS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

STORM SPOTTERS WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT.

&&

FOR MORE DETAILS VISIT OUR WEBPAGE HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC/EHWO

JF

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 28, 11:57 PM CDT, 43 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 29, 12:20 AM CDT, 20 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 29, 12:40 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 28, 11:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stevens	48 min
Apr 29, 12:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Seward	40 min
Apr 29, 12:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stevens	48 min
Apr 29, 1:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Morton	40 min
Apr 29, 1:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Seward	49 min
Apr 29, 1:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Meade	46 min
Apr 29, 2:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Clark, Ford, Meade	44 min
Apr 29, 2:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Clark	50 min
Apr 29, 3:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Kiowa	40 min
Apr 29, 4:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Clark	51 min
Apr 29, 4:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt	44 min
Apr 29, 4:39 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Clark	51 min
Apr 29, 4:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Pratt	42 min
Apr 29, 5:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Comanche	47 min
Apr 29, 10:37 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Comanche	38 min
Apr 29, 2:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Barber	39 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.