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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 9, 2016Lane County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Jun 9, 2016, 4:59 PM CDT for Lane County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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
Jun 9, 2016, 4:59 PM CDT (21:59 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 2016, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS

County Lane County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 110 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 12:00Z on 2016-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 262 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2016-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 64 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
262 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-412 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1669 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
56 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 Jun 9, 3:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 3:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 9, 4:00 AM CDT, 12 hours 59 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
400 AM CDT THU JUN 9 2016

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-100900-
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-
400 AM CDT THU JUN 9 2016 /300 AM MDT THU JUN 9 2016/

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

DISCUSSION...STRONG TO MARGINALLY SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS
SOUTHWEST KANSAS THIS EVENING. ISOLATED 60 MPH WINDS AND PERHAPS QUARTER
SIZE HAIL ARE THE MAIN THREATS.

WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED...

  LIMITED HAIL RISK.
  LIMITED THUNDERSTORM WIND DAMAGE RISK.
  LIMITED LIGHTNING RISK.
  LIMITED EXCESSIVE HEAT RISK.

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

DISCUSSION...A MORE SIGNIFICANT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS
POSSIBLE NEXT TUESDAY. SPECIFIC DETAILS ARE UNKNOWN AS THIS TIME.
OTHERWISE, ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE
POSSIBLE.

HAZARDS WEATHER RISK...

  FRIDAY...
  LIMITED EXCESSIVE HEAT RISK.

  SATURDAY...
  LIMITED LIGHTNING RISK.
  LIMITED EXCESSIVE HEAT RISK.

  SUNDAY...
  LIMITED LIGHTNING RISK.
  LIMITED EXCESSIVE HEAT RISK.

  MONDAY...
  LIMITED LIGHTNING RISK.
  LIMITED EXCESSIVE HEAT RISK.

  TUESDAY...
  LIMITED LIGHTNING RISK.
  LIMITED EXCESSIVE HEAT RISK.

  WEDNESDAY...
  LIMITED EXCESSIVE HEAT RISK.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER TODAY OR TONIGHT.

&&

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

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 9, 4:59 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
459 PM CDT THU JUN 9 2016

KSZ030-044-092245-
TREGO KS-LANE KS-
459 PM CDT THU JUN 9 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WEST CENTRAL TREGO AND NORTHERN
LANE COUNTIES UNTIL 545 PM CDT...

AT 458 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A DEVELOPING, STRONG
THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTH OF SHIELDS...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
DIGHTON...SHIELDS...PENDENNIS AND HEALY.

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO
STATIONS AND AVAILABLE TELEVISION STATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 3886 10011 3868 10025 3866 10025 3845 10039
      3852 10060 3870 10065 3870 10025 3881 10015
      3887 10015
TIME...MOT...LOC 2158Z 202DEG 23KT 3856 10046

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 5:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane54 min
Jun 9, 6:09 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCHaskell66 min
Jun 9, 6:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane, Scott48 min
Jun 9, 6:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Haskell67 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Kansas, 2016Every special weather statement in 2016

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.