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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 31, 2016Gray County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at May 31, 2016, 12:21 AM 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: May 31, 2016, 12:21 AM CDT (05:21 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 2016, 1:00 AM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS

County Gray County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 39 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: 731 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -98 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2122 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

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The text

As transmitted.

201 
WWUS83 KDDC 310521
SPSDDC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1221 AM CDT TUE MAY 31 2016
 
KSZ063-064-077-078-310600-
FORD KS-FINNEY KS-GRAY KS-HODGEMAN KS-
1221 AM CDT TUE MAY 31 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EAST CENTRAL FINNEY...
NORTHEASTERN GRAY...NORTHWESTERN FORD AND SOUTHWESTERN HODGEMAN
COUNTIES UNTIL 100 AM CDT...

AT 1219 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8
MILES SOUTHWEST OF KALVESTA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS TO 55 MPH ARE LIKELY.

TRAINED SPOTTERS MEASURED A WIND GUST OF 56 MPH 3 MILES NORTH OF
INGALLS AT 1215 AM. 

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CIMARRON...INGALLS...HOWELL AND KALVESTA. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 10 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

&&

LAT...LON 3783 10051 3807 10044 3802 10000 3769 10014
TIME...MOT...LOC 0519Z 283DEG 20KT 3797 10038 

$$

TURNER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 9:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Wichita	38 min
May 30, 9:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Lane, Trego	38 min
May 30, 9:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Scott	43 min
May 30, 9:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Kearny	40 min
May 30, 10:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hamilton	45 min
May 30, 10:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ellis, Trego	48 min
May 30, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Kearny	24 min
May 30, 10:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Kearny	41 min
May 30, 10:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Kearny	47 min
May 30, 11:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ellis	43 min
May 30, 11:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Kearny	38 min
May 30, 11:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ellis	47 min
May 30, 11:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Finney	48 min
May 30, 11:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Finney	45 min
May 30, 11:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Grant	42 min
May 30, 11:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Kearny	39 min
May 30, 11:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Haskell	48 min
May 31, 12:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Gray	45 min
May 31, 12:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hodgeman	52 min
May 31, 12:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Grant	49 min
May 31, 12:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Haskell	44 min
May 31, 12:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Gray	44 min
May 31, 12:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hamilton	39 min
May 31, 12:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ford	49 min
May 31, 1:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Haskell	43 min
May 31, 1:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ford	44 min
May 31, 1:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ford	41 min
May 31, 1:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hodgeman	41 min
May 31, 1:39 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Meade	51 min
May 31, 1:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Meade	44 min
May 31, 1:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Edwards	38 min
May 31, 2:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Clark	41 min
May 31, 2:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Edwards, Kiowa	47 min
May 31, 2:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Clark, Meade, Seward	44 min
May 31, 2:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Barber, Pratt	49 min
May 31, 2:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Comanche	47 min
May 31, 3:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stanton	64 min
May 31, 3:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Barber, Comanche	64 min
May 31, 4:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Haskell	52 min
May 31, 5:59 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	DDC	Haskell	3 hr

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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.