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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 23, 2016Morton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Jun 23, 2016, 12:41 AM CDT for Morton County, Kansas. It was in force for 64 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 23, 2016, 12:41 AM CDT (05:41 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 2016, 1:45 AM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS

County Morton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 178 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 218 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2016-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 229 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2016-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 7 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
229 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-91 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3564 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-34 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.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 23, 12:41 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 1:48 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCStanton72 min
Jun 23, 8:56 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCHodgeman49 min
Jun 23, 9:53 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCHodgeman37 min
Jun 23, 10:25 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCPawnee50 min
Jun 23, 10:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Pawnee38 min
Jun 23, 11:05 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCStafford25 min
Jun 23, 11:16 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCEdwards44 min
Jun 23, 11:21 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCFord39 min
Jun 23, 11:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Pawnee, Stafford35 min
Jun 23, 11:32 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCStafford43 min
Jun 23, 11:37 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCFord38 min
Jun 23, 11:54 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCStafford36 min
Jun 23, 12:16 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCEdwards44 min
Jun 23, 12:26 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCStafford49 min
Jun 23, 1:04 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCEdwards41 min
Jun 23, 1:26 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCPratt, Stafford49 min
Jun 23, 3:28 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCStevens47 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.